saltillo

See also: Saltillo

English

Etymology

From Spanish saltillo.

Noun

saltillo (plural saltillos)

1. In Mexican languages, especially Nahuatl, a glottal stop or fricative sound.
2. An apostrophe-like symbol (Ꞌ or ꞌ) used to represent this sound.

Quotations

• 1915: Nahuatl ’ (saltillo) can be clearly shown to be developed in certain cases from syllabically final -t or -k, ... —Southern Paiute and Nahuatl - A Study in Utoaztekan, Part II, Edward Sapir, American Anthropologist, New Series, Vol. 17, No. 2 (Apr.-Jun., 1915)
• 1937: In Aztec the second ultra-short vowel is syncopated, leaving however the glottal consonant or “saltillo,” ... —The Origin of Aztec Tl, B.L. Whorf, American Anthropologist, New Series, Vol. 39, No. 2 (Apr.-Jun., 1937)
• 1960: ... the grave accent for the saltillo, as in tàtli /taˀλi/ father; and the circumflex for the ‘saltillo final’, as in tātlî /ta·λiˀ/ we drink. ... The saltillo of Rincón corresponds to that of Carochi, with the additional information from Rincón that the saltillo ‘solamente se halla en la sílaba breve’. —'Accent' in Classical Aztec, William Bright, International Journal of American Linguistics, Vol. 26, No. 1. (Jan. 1960)
• 1993: Third, Whorf’s hypotheses concerning the origin of “saltillo” (basically glottal stop) are an important stage in the development of Uto-Aztecan linguistics, and in the study of Nahuatl in particular. —Pitch Tone and the "Saltillo" in Modern and Ancient Nahuatl, Lyle Campbell and Frances Karttunen, International Journal of American Linguistics, Vol. 59, No. 2 (Apr., 1993)
• 2005?: The famous "saltillo" is a glottal stop [ʔ] in some variants, or a fricative [h] in others, but there are not two separate glottal phonemes. —Nahuatl Consonants, David Tuggy [1]

Anagrams

• tall oils

Spanish

Etymology

From salto (“jump”) +‎ -illo (diminutive), from Latin saltus, from saliō (“to jump”), from Proto-Indo-European *sal-yo-.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /salˈtiʝo/ [sal̪ˈt̪i.ʝo]

• IPA^(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /salˈtiʝo/ [sal̪ˈt̪i.ʝo]
• IPA^(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines) /salˈtiʎo/ [sal̪ˈt̪i.ʎo]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /salˈtiʃo/ [sal̪ˈt̪i.ʃo]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /salˈtiʒo/ [sal̪ˈt̪i.ʒo]

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• Rhymes: -iʝo

• Rhymes: -iʝo
• Rhymes: -iʎo
• Rhymes: -iʃo
• Rhymes: -iʒo

• Syllabification: sal‧ti‧llo

Noun

saltillo m (plural saltillos)

1. saltillo
2. (uncommon) a (relatively small) waterfall

   Coordinate term: salto

   • 1987, Humberto Buentello Chapa, Toponimias de Nuevo León, page 31:

     […] cascada, que no era con mucho lo que se pensaba, modificó su opinión con estos términos: “se nos ha vuelto el ... un saltillo”.

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   • 2006, Contenido, issues 513-518, page 99:

     […] cascada (un "saltillo" de agua) que había en el sitio original del asentamiento.

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Descendants

• → English: saltillo