mistuʼ

Isthmus Zapotec

Etymology

Borrowed from a Nahuan language; cf. Classical Nahuatl miztōn, miztō, from miztli (“mountain lion”) +‎ -tōn (diminutive suffix).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmìstúʔ/

Noun

mistuʼ

1. cat

Derived terms

• mistuꞌ guiꞌxhiꞌ

References

• Pickett, Velma, et al. (2013) Vocabulario zapoteco del Istmo: Zapoteco-español y español-zapoteco (Serie de vocabularios y diccionaries indígenas “Mariano Silva y Acevas”; 3)‎^[1] (in Spanish), fifth (electronic) edition, second version edition, Insituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 19