coyote

English

A coyote.

Alternative forms

• cayeute, cayota, cayote, coyoto (all obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish coyote, from a Nahuan language, from Proto-Nahuan *koyootl. Compare Chinook ki-o-tī.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /kəˈjoʊ.ti/, /kaɪˈ(j)oʊ.ti/, (especially Western US) /ˈkaɪ.(j)oʊt/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /kɔɪˈ(j)əʊt(ɪ)/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

coyote (plural coyotes)

2. (zoology) Canis latrans, a species of canine native to North America.

   Synonym: prairie wolf

   • 1824, William Bullock, Six Months' Residence and Travels in Mexico, page 119:

     Near Rio Frio we shot several handsome birds, and saw a cayjotte, or wild dog, which in size nearly approached the wolf.

3. (US, informal) A smuggler of undocumented immigrants across the land border from Latin America into the United States of America.
   • 2020 July 23, Abrahm Lustgarten, “The Great Climate Migration”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     Jorge’s father had pawned his last four goats for $2,000 to help pay for their transit, another loan the family would have to repay at 100 percent interest. The coyote called at 10 p.m. — they would go that night.

Hyponyms

• Belize coyote (Canis latrans goldmani)
• California Valley coyote (Canis latrans ochropus)
• Colima coyote (Canis latrans vigilis)
• Durango coyote (Canis latrans impavidus)
• Honduras coyote (Canis latrans hondurensis)
• Lower Rio Grande coyote (Canis latrans microdon)
• Mearns coyote (Canis latrans mearnsi)
• Mexican coyote (Canis latrans cagottis)
• mountain coyote (Canis latrans lestes)
• northern coyote (Canis latrans incolatus)
• Northeastern coyote (Canis latrans thamnos)
• Northwest Coast coyote (Canis latrans umpquensis)
• Peninsula Coyote (Canis latrans peninsulae)
• Plains coyote (Canis latrans latrans)
• Salvador coyote (Canis latrans dickeyi)
• San Pedro Martir coyote (Canis latrans clepticus)
• Southeastern coyote (Canis latrans frustror)
• Texas Plains coyote (Canis latrans texensis)
• Tiburón Island coyote (Canis latrans jamesi)

Derived terms

• anticoyote
• coydog
• coyote brush
• coyote bush
• coyote gourd
• coyoteite
• coyotelike
• coyote melon
• Coyote State
• coyote time
• coyote tobacco
• coyote ugly
• coywolf
• dogote
• hyote
• Wile E. Coyote
• woyote

 

Related terms

• coyotillo

 

Descendants

• → Irish: cadhóit

Translations

See also: Coyote

canine

• Afrikaans: prêriewolf
• Albanian: kojotë f
• Apache:

  Western: ma’, ba’

• Arabic: قَيُّوط m (qayyūṭ)
• Armenian: դաշտագայլ (daštagayl), կոյոտ (hy) (koyot)
• Azerbaijani: koyyot
• Belarusian: каёт m (kajót)
• Bengali: নেকড়েবিশেষ (nekṛebiśeś)
• Bulgarian: койо́т (bg) m (kojót)
• Burmese: ကွိုင်းယုတ် (kwuing:yut)
• Cahuilla: 'isill
• Catalan: coiot m
• Ch'orti': b'ojb', b'oj
• Cherokee: ᏩᏯᎭ (wayaha)
• Cheyenne: ó'kôhóme
• Chinantec:

  Lealao: dsɨ³nuu³

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 郊狼 (gaau¹ long⁴)

  Mandarin: 郊狼 (zh) (jiāoláng)

• Chiricahua: ma’ye, mba’ye, mai, mbai, mai’
• Comanche: kʉtséena
• Cree: ᒪᐦᐃᐦᑲᓐᑖᔥᑎᒥᒄ (mahihkantaashtimikw)
• Czech: kojot (cs) m
• Danish: prærieulv (da) c, coyote (da) c
• Dutch: coyote (nl) m, prairiewolf m
• Esperanto: kojoto (eo)
• Estonian: koiott, preeriahunt
• Finnish: kojootti (fi)
• French: coyote (fr) m
• Gabrielino-Fernandeño: 'iitar
• Georgian: ველის მგელი (velis mgeli), კოიოტი (ḳoioṭi)
• German: Kojote (de) m, Präriewolf m, Steppenwolf m
• Greek: κογιότ (el) n (kogiót)
• Guerrero Amuzgo: kítzë' jndë
• Hawaiian: kaioke
• Hebrew: זְאֵב עֲרָבוֹת (he) m (z’ev ‘aravot)
• Hidatsa: móohca
• Hindi: कायोटी (kāyoṭī)
• Hopi: iisaw
• Hungarian: prérifarkas (hu)
• Icelandic: sléttuúlfur m
• Indonesian: koyote
• Ineseño: xuxaʼw
• Inupiaq: amaġuuraq
• Irish: cadhóit f
• Italian: coyote (it) m, coiote m
• Japanese: コヨーテ (ja) (koyōte)
• Kazakh: шалғын қасқыры (şalğyn qasqyry), шалғынды қасқыр (şalğyndy qasqyr)
• Korean: 코요테 (koyote)
• Kyrgyz: койот (koyot)
• Lakota: šuŋgmánitu
• Latvian: koijots m
• Lithuanian: kojotas (lt) m
• Lutshootseed: sbiaw
• Macedonian: којот m (kojot)
• Malay: koyote

  Jawi: کويوتي

• Mixtec:

  Alcozauca Mixtec: ndivá'i

  Yosondúa Mixtec: va'u

• Mongolian: талын чоно (talyn čono)
• Montana Salish: snč'l'e
• Nahuatl:

  Central: coyotl

  Central Huasteca: koyochichi

  Classical: coyotl

  Eastern Durango: koyot

  Eastern Huasteca: koyochichi

  Guerrero: kokoyotl

  Highland Puebla: koyot

  Mecayapan: coyo̱'

  Western Durango: koyót

  Western Huasteca: koyochichi

• Navajo: mąʼii
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: prærieulv (no) m, coyote m

  Nynorsk: prærieulv m, coyote m

• O'odham: ban
• Occitan: coiòt (oc) m
• Omaha-Ponca: míkasi
• Osage: šǫ́mįhkase
• Panamint: isa
• Pawnee: ckírihki
• Persian: کایوت (kâyot)
• Pipil: kuyut
• Plautdietsch: Kajote m
• Polish: kojot (pl) m
• Portuguese: coiote (pt) m
• Romanian: coiot (ro) m
• Russian: койо́т (ru) m (kojót)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: којот m

  Roman: kojot (sh) m

• Seri: oot, ziix ihimoz imaa, ziix coocö
• Slovak: kojot m
• Slovene: kojót (sl) m
• Southeastern Tepehuan: bhan
• Spanish: coyote (es) m
• Swedish: prärievarg (sv) c
• Tagalog: koyote
• Tajik: койот (koyot)
• Taos: cʼȕnéna
• Thai: ไคโยตี (kai-yoo-dtîi)
• Turkish: kır kurdu
• Turkmen: şagal, koýot
• Tz'utujil: utiiw
• Ukrainian: койо́т m (kojót)
• Uzbek: koyot
• Vietnamese: sói đồng cỏ (獪垌𦹵)
• Wappo: húṭʼ
• Yucatec Maya: utiúu
• Zapotec:

  Aloápam: sagueo

  Isthmus: gueu'

  Yatzachi: becoyo'o

  Zoogocho: beco'yo

• Zuni: suski

smuggler

• Portuguese: coiote (pt) m
• Spanish: coyote (es)

Verb

coyote (third-person singular simple present coyotes, present participle coyoteing or coyoting, simple past and past participle coyoted)

1. To prospect for gold by manually digging holes into overlying earth, as into a hillside.

See also

• (canids) canid; coyote, dog, fox, jackal, wolf ^{(Category: en:Canids)}

Further reading

• coyote on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• oocyte, oöcyte

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English coyote, from Spanish coyote, from a Nahuan language, from Proto-Nahuan *koyootl.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌkoːˈjoː.t(ə)/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: co‧yo‧te
• Rhymes: -oːtə

Noun

coyote m (plural coyotes, diminutive coyootje n)

1. coyote

   Synonym: prairiewolf

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish coyote, from a Nahuan language, from Proto-Nahuan *koyootl.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ.jɔt/

• Audio:

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Noun

coyote m (plural coyotes)

1. coyote

Derived terms

• coyloup

 

Descendants

• → Romanian: coiot
• → Persian: کایوت (kâyot)

Further reading

• “coyote”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• côtoyé

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English coyote, from Spanish coyote, from a Nahuan language, from Proto-Nahuan *koyootl.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /koˈjɔ.te/
• Rhymes: -ɔte
• Hyphenation: co‧yò‧te

Noun

coyote m (usually invariable, plural (rare, proscribed) coyoti)

1. coyote

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from a Nahuan language, from Proto-Nahuan *koyootl.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /koˈʝote/ [koˈʝo.t̪e]

• IPA^(key): (everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay) /koˈʝote/ [koˈʝo.t̪e]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /koˈʃote/ [koˈʃo.t̪e]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /koˈʒote/ [koˈʒo.t̪e]

• Audio (Spain):

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• Rhymes: -ote
• Syllabification: co‧yo‧te

Noun

coyote m (plural coyotes)

1. coyote (canine)
2. (Mexico) coyote (smuggler of illegal immigrants)

   Synonym: pollero

3. (Mexico) fixer, middleman

   Synonym: intermediario

4. (obsolete) a person of mixed Native American and mestizo descent

Derived terms

• coyota f

 

Descendants

• → English: coyote
• → French: coyote
• → German: Kojote
• → Italian: coyote
• → Japanese: コヨーテ (koyōte)
• → Korean: 코요테 (koyote)
• → Russian: койо́т (kojót)
• → Tagalog: koyote

Further reading

• “coyote”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
• coyote on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es