tīntzun

Highland Totonac

Etymology

Borrowed from a Nahuan language. Cf. Classical Nahuatl tēntzoneh (literally “bearded”).

Noun

tīntzun

1. goat (Capra aegagrus hircus)

References

• Aschmann, Herman P. (1983) Castellano-totonaco, totonaco-castellano: Dialecto de la sierra (Serie de vocabularios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 7)‎^[1], second edition, México, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 126