tlalcoyotl
Appearance
Central Nahuatl
[edit]Noun
[edit]tlalcoyotl
Classical Nahuatl
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- tlalcoyutl, tlalcuyutl (obsolete spellings)
Etymology
[edit]From tlālli (“earth”) + coyōtl (“coyote”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]tlālcoyōtl (animate)
- American badger
- 1571, Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, f. 123v. col. 2:
- Tlalcoyutl.cierto adiue que ſe eſconde debaxo / dela tierra y la caua como la tuçan. […] / Tlalcuyutl.lo meſmo que es tlalcoyutl.
- Tlacoyutl. a certain animal that hides beneath the earth and digs it up like the gopher. […] / Tlalcuyutl. the same thing as tlalcoyutl.
Descendants
[edit]- Spanish: tlalcoyote
References
[edit]- Alonso de Molina (2008) Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana (1571), Editorial Porrúa, page 123