xaꞌyanj³

Chicahuaxtla Triqui

Alternative forms

• chañia (obsolete)

Etymology

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Noun

xaꞌyanj³

1. coyote (Canis latrans)

References

• Belmar, Francisco (1897) Ensayo sobre la lengua trike (Lenguas indígenas del Estado de Oaxaca) (in Spanish), Oaxaca: Imprenta de Lorenzo San-Germán, page 51: “Chañia”
• Good, Claude (1979) Diccionario triqui de Chicahuaxtla: Triqui - Castellano, Castellano - Triqui (Serie de vocabularios indígenas Mariano Silva y Aceves; 20)‎^[1] (in Spanish), second edition, México, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, pages 45, 69: “xaꞌyanj³”