tokotsi
Hopi
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Ute, filling a lexical gap which was apparently left when moosa shifted to meaning "domestic cat".[1]
Noun
[edit]tokotsi
- wildcat (animal)
- ill-tempered person
References
[edit]- ^ 1998, Kenneth C. Hill, Spanish loanwords in Hopi, in The Life of Language: Papers in Linguistics in Honor of William Bright (edited by Jane H. Hill, P. J. Mistry, Lyle Campbell), page 22
Further reading
[edit]- A Concise Hopi and English Lexicon (→ISBN, 1985)