yootaꞌ

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Southeastern Tepehuan

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Etymology

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Cognate with Northern Tepehuan yoótai, O'odham hiot, Classical Nahuatl xōtla.

Verb

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yootaꞌ (preterite yoo, present yoot)

  1. (intransitive) bloom, blossom (of a flower)
  2. (intransitive) pop (of popcorn)

References

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  • R. de Willett, Elizabeth, et al. (2016) Diccionario tepehuano de Santa María Ocotán, Durango (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 48)‎[1] (in Spanish), electronic edition, Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 186