wílatho

Taos

Etymology

From *wíla- (“pass, gap?”) + -tho (“at”). Cognate with Picuris pʼį̀nwéltha (“Picuris Pueblo”) (literally “mountain pass place” although this decomposition is now opaque).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈwīlæthɑ/

Particle

wílatho

1. Picuris Pueblo; literally, "at the pass", referring to location of the pueblo near the west end of a pass leading to the Great Plains

Related terms

• pʼìanwílaną

References

• Felicia Trager's translation is “Picuris Pueblo”, but Edward Curtis recorded a translation “at the pass”. Curtis also obtained a similar translation for the cognate term in the Picuris language.