coyote

See also Coyote

English

Coyote

Alternative forms

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

Etymology

From Spanish coyote, from Nahuatl coyotl.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /kaɪˈ(j)əʊtiː/
• IPA: /ˈkaɪ(j)əʊt/
• IPA: /kɔɪˈ(j)əʊteɪ/
• IPA: /ˈkɔɪ(j)əʊt/

• Audio (US)

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Noun

coyote (plural coyotes)

1. 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

• Canis latrans (zoology)

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

Alcozauca Mixtec: ndivá'i Amuzgo: kítzë' jndë Bulgarian: койот (bg) m. Catalan: coiot (ca) m. Ch'orti': b'ojb', b'oj Cherokee: ᏩᏯᎭ (chr) (wayaha) Chinese: Mandarin: 郊狼 (zh) (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.

Mixtec: Nahuatl: Classical: 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 Tepehuan: Tz'utujil: utiiw Western Apache: ma’, ba’ Yosondúa Mixtec: va'u Yucatec Maya: utiúu Zapotec: Isthmus: gueu' Yatzachi: becoyo'o Zoogocho: beco'yo

smuggler

Icelandic: sá sem hjálpar ólöglegum innflytjendum að komast yfir landamæri Mexíkó til Bandaríkjanna gegn gjaldi

Spanish: coyote (es)

Derived terms

• coyote ugly

See also

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

External links

• Coyote on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• oocyte

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Dutch

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 Nahuatl via Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA: /kɔjɔt/

• 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 Nahuatl coyotl.

Noun

coyote m. (plural coyotes)

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

Synonyms

• (smuggler): pollo