orosiir

Southeastern Tepehuan

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish alguacil, from Andalusian Arabic الوَزِير (alwazīr), from Arabic الوَزِير (al-wazīr, “the minister”).

Noun

orosiir (plural oꞌrosiir)

1. alguacil

References

• 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 141