coyote

See also Coyote

English

Coyote

Alternative forms

• cayeute, cayota, cayote, coyoto (all obsolete)

Etymology

From Spanish coyote, from Nahuatl coyotl.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /kaɪˈ(j)oʊtiː/
• IPA: /ˈkaɪ(j)oʊt/
• IPA: /kɔɪˈ(j)oʊteɪ/
• IPA: /ˈkɔɪ(j)oʊt/

• Audio (US)

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Noun

coyote (plural coyotes)

1. Canis latrans, a species of canine native to North America.
   • 1824, William Bullock, Six Months' Residence and Travels in Mexico, p. 119

     Near Rio Frio we shot several handsome birds, and saw a cayjotte, or wild dog, which in size nearly approached the wolf.

2. A smuggler of illegal immigrants across the land border from Mexico into the United States of America.

Synonyms

• (canine): prairie wolf

Hyponyms

Belize coyote (Canis latrans goldmani) California Valley coyote (Canis latrans ochropus) Colima coyote (Canis latrans vigilis) Durango coyote (Canis latrans impavidus) Honduras coyote (Canis latrans hondurensis) Lower Rio Grande coyote (Canis latrans microdon) Mearns coyote (Canis latrans mearnsi) Mexican coyote (Canis latrans cagottis) mountain coyote (Canis latrans lestes) northern coyote (Canis latrans incolatus)

Northeastern coyote (Canis latrans thamnos) Northwest Coast coyote (Canis latrans umpquensis) Peninsula Coyote (Canis latrans peninsulae) Plains coyote (Canis latrans latrans) Salvador coyote (Canis latrans dickeyi) San Pedro Martir coyote (Canis latrans clepticus) Southeastern coyote (Canis latrans frustor) Texas Plains coyote (Canis latrans texensis) Tiburón Island coyote (Canis latrans jamesi)

Translations

canine

• Albanian: kojotë (sq)
• Alcozauca Mixtec: ndivá'i
• Amuzgo: kítzë' jndë
• Armenian: դաշտագայլ (hy) (dashtagayl)
• Bengali: নেকড়েবিশেষ (bn) (nēkaṛēbiśēṣa)
• Bulgarian: койот (bg) (kojot) m
• Catalan: coiot (ca) m
• Ch'orti': b'ojb', b'oj
• Cherokee: ᏩᏯᎭ (chr) (wayaha)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 郊狼 (cmn) (jiāoláng)

• Chiricahua: ma’ye, mba’ye, mai, mbai, mai’
• Czech: kojot (cs) m
• Danish: prærieulv (da) c
• Dutch: coyote (nl) m
• Estonian: stepihunt
• Finnish: kojootti (fi)
• French: coyote (fr) m
• German: Kojote (de) m
• Greek: κογιότ (el) (kogiót) n
• Hebrew: זְאֵב עֲרָבוֹת (z’ev ‘aravot) m
• Hopi: iisaw
• Hungarian: prérifarkas (hu)
• Icelandic: sléttuúlfur (is) m
• Ineseño: xuxaʼw
• Italian: coyote (it) m, coiote (it) m
• Japanese: コヨーテ (ja) (koyōte)
• Korean: 코요테 (ko) (koyote)
• Lealao Chinantec: dsɨ³nuu³

• Macedonian: којот (mk) (kójot) m
• Malay:

  Rumi: koyote (ms)

  Jawi: کويوتي (ms)

  Classical Nahuatl: coyotl

  Isthmus: coyo̱'

  Pipil: kuyu:t

• Navajo: mąʼii
• O'odham: ban
• Polish: kojot (pl) m
• Portuguese: coiote (pt) m
• Romanian: coiot (ro) m
• Russian: койот (ru) (kojót) m
• Seri: oot, ziix ihimoz imaa, ziix coocö
• Slovak: kojot (sk) m
• Southeastern Tepehuan: bhan
• Spanish: coyote (es) m
• Swedish: prärievarg (sv) c
• Taos: c’ȕnéna
• Tz'utujil: utiiw
• Vietnamese: người vô loại (vi)
• Western Apache: ma’, ba’
• Yosondúa Mixtec: va'u
• Yucatec Maya: utiúu
• Zapotec:

  Isthmus: gueu'

  Yatzachi: becoyo'o

  Zoogocho: beco'yo

• Zuni: suski

smuggler

• Spanish: coyote (es)

Derived terms

• coyote ugly

Verb

coyote (third-person singular simple present coyotes, present participle coyoteing or coyoting, simple past and past participle coyoted)

1. To prospect for gold by manually digging holes into overlying earth, as into a hillside.

See also

• (canids) canid; coyote, dog, fox, jackal, wolf ^{(Category: en:Canids)}

External links

• Coyote on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• oocyte

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Etymology

From English coyote, from Spanish coyote, from Nahuatl coyotl.

Pronunciation

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Noun

coyote m (plural coyotes, diminutive coyootje)

1. coyote

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French

Etymology

From Spanish coyote, from Classical Nahuatl coyōtl.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /kɔ.jɔt/

• Audio

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Noun

coyote m (plural coyotes)

1. coyote

Anagrams

• côtoyé

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Italian

Noun

coyote m (plural coyoti)

1. coyote

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Spanish

Etymology

From Classical Nahuatl coyōtl.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ko.ˈʝo.te/
• Rhymes: -ote

Wikipedia ^es

Noun

coyote m (plural coyotes)

1. coyote (canine)
2. (Mexico) coyote (smuggler of illegal immigrants)
3. (Mexico) fixer, middleman

Synonyms

• (smuggler): pollo m

Derived terms

• coyota f

Descendants

English: coyote French: coyote

German: Kojote Russian: койот (kojót)