chiguat
Maratino
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Clearly related in some way to Nahuatl cihuatl; Campbell considers the Marantino term a borrowing of the Nahuatl term; Swanton had considered Marantino Uto-Aztecan based on the idea that they were cognate.
Noun
[edit]chiguat
References
[edit]- Lyle Campbell, American Indian Languages: The Historical Linguistics of Native America →ISBN, 2000): Maratino chiguat [čiwat] 'woman' is a borrowing from Aztec siwa:tl, as is peyot 'peyote' (from Nahuatl peyotl).