jo̱nchoꞌ

Mecayapan Nahuatl

FWOTD – 2 March 2020

Alternative forms

• jonchoʼ

Etymology

Borrowed from Highland Popoluca [Term?].

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhoːnt͡ʃoʔ/

Noun

jo̱nchoꞌ

1. a legendary animal resembling a gorilla
   • 1994, Esteban Pérez Ramírez, Ita̱tapohualis se̱ pe̱lo yej pox maya̱naya, 2nd edition, México, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 7:

     Entoncej iami̱goj jo̱nchoꞌ quicontesta̱roj ijquí̱n.

     Then his friend the jo̱nchoꞌ replied thus.

   • 2014, Teobaldo Bautista Martínez, “Jonchoʼ”, in 4ª antología literaria en lenguas indígenas del estado de Veracruz, Academia Veracruzana de las Lenguas Indígenas, →ISBN, page 101:

     Totajwan ikya kipowayaj iga pan kuayoj chantitoya se jonchoʼ yeh poxsan tamajmajtiaya.

     Our fathers long ago said that in the forest there lived a jonchoʼ that was very scary.

References

• Wolgemuth, Carl et al. (2002) Diccionario náhuatl de los municipios de Mecayapan y Tatahuicapan de Juárez, Veracruz‎^[1] (in Spanish), second electronic edition, Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 76