túmiin

Cora

Etymology

Borrowed from a Nahuan language (cf. Classical Nahuatl tomīn), from Spanish tomín (“a coin equal to an eight of a peso”), from Andalusian Arabic [Term?], from Arabic ثُمْن (ṯumn, “one-eighth”).

Noun

túmiin

1. money

References

• McMahon, Ambrosio, Aiton de McMahon, Maria (1959) Cora y español (Serie de vocabularios indígenas Mariano Silva y Aceves; 2)‎^[1] (in Spanish), México, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, pages 34, 66, 183
• Preuss, K. Th. (1935 June) “Wörterbuch Deutsch-Cora”, in International Journal of American Linguistics (in German), volume VIII, number 2, →DOI, →JSTOR, pages 81–102: “Geld tumin”