jaijtzʌ

Cora

FWOTD – 29 August 2020

Etymology

Cognate with Huichol háisï and Southeastern Tepehuan baisɨlh. Cf. Classical Nahuatl pēzohtli.

Noun

jaijtzʌ (plural jaijtzʌte)

1. white-nosed coati (Nasua narica)

References

• McMahon, Ambrosio, Aiton de McMahon, Maria (1959) Cora y español (Serie de vocabularios indígenas Mariano Silva y Aceves; 2)‎^[1] (in Spanish), México, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, pages 98, 139
• Preuss, K. Th. (1935 June) “Wörterbuch Deutsch-Cora”, in International Journal of American Linguistics (in German), volume VIII, number 2, →DOI, →JSTOR, pages 81–102: “Dachs hai̯tsẹ́”