cíbolo
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Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Derived from Cíbola, with a change of gender from feminine to masculine; then, borrowed from Zuni Shiwina.[1][2]
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): (Spain) /ˈθibolo/ [ˈθi.β̞o.lo]
- IPA(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /ˈsibolo/ [ˈsi.β̞o.lo]
- Rhymes: -ibolo
- Syllabification: cí‧bo‧lo
Noun
[edit]cíbolo m (plural cíbolos)
- (New Mexico) buffalo (North American bison)
Synonyms
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[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Rubén Cobos (2003 June 30) A Dictionary of New Mexico and Southern Colorado Spanish: Revised and Expanded Edition, Museum of New Mexico Press, →ISBN, page 62: “Cíbola f [Col. NM Sp. Cibola, fr. Zuni Shiwina, tribal range] early sixteenth century Spanish name for Zuni and all the lands which later (1582) became known as Nueba Mexico. […] cíbolo m [NM-CO Sp. cibolo, fr. Sp. Cibola] buffalo.”
- ^ Simon Romero (2023 April 9) “New Mexico Is Losing a Form of Spanish Spoken Nowhere Else on Earth”, in The New York Times[1], archived from the original on 2024-08-28, retrieved April 9, 2023: “They incorporated Indigenous words like chimal (shield) from Náhuatl, chimayó (obsidian flake) from Tewa and cíbolo (buffalo) from Zuñi, as well as bisnes (business), crismes (Christmas), sanamagón (son of a gun) and many others from English.”
Further reading
[edit]- “cíbolo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014