The Greek that is translated as “tradition” in English is translated in these ways:
- Kekchí: “the old root-trunk” (in which the life of a people is likened to a tree)
- Central Tarahumara: “to live as the ancients did”
- North Alaskan Inupiatun: “sayings passed down from long-ago times”
- Navajo (Dinė): “what their fathers of old told them to follow”
- Toraja-Sa’dan: “the ordinance maintained by the forefathers”
- Tzeltal: “the word that has been kept from the ancients” (source for this and all above Bratcher / Nida)
- Gumuz: “the life of your fathers” (source: Loren Bliese)
- Obolo: “the deeds of the ground” (orọmijọn̄) (source: Enene Enene)
- Mairiasi: “the old things that are being held-onto” (source: Enggavoter 2004)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “handed-down customs” (source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
