coyote

See also: Coyote

English

a coyote

Alternative forms

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

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish coyote, from a Nahuan language, from Proto-Nahuan *koyootl.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kəˈjoʊti/, /kaɪˈ(j)oʊti/, /ˈkaɪ(j)oʊt/
• IPA^(key): /kɔɪˈ(j)əʊt(ɪ)/

• 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 ()
• California Valley coyote ()
• Colima coyote ()
• Durango coyote ()
• Honduras coyote ()
• Lower Rio Grande coyote ()
• Mearns coyote ()
• Mexican coyote ()
• mountain coyote ()
• northern coyote ()

• Northeastern coyote ()
• Northwest Coast coyote ()
• Peninsula Coyote ()
• Plains coyote ()
• Salvador coyote ()
• San Pedro Martir coyote ()
• Southeastern coyote ()
• Texas Plains coyote ()
• Tiburón Island coyote ()

Derived terms

• coydog
• coyote bush ()
• coyote ugly
• coywolf
• dogote

Descendants

• → Irish: cadhóit

Translations

See also: Coyote

canine

• Afrikaans: prêriewolf
• Albanian: kojotë f
• Apache:

  Western: ma’, ba’

• Arabic: قَيُّوط m (qayyūṭ)
• Armenian: դաշտագայլ (daštagayl), կոյոտ (hy) (koyot)
• Azerbaijani: koyyot
• Belarusian: каёт m (kajót)
• Bengali: নেকড়েবিশেষ (nēkaṛēbiśēṣa)
• Bulgarian: койо́т m (kojót)
• Burmese: ကွိုင်းယုတ် (kwuing:yut)
• Cahuilla: 'isill
• Catalan: coiot m
• Ch'orti': b'ojb', b'oj
• Cherokee: ᏩᏯᎭ (wayaha)
• Chinantec:

  Lealao: dsɨ³nuu³

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 郊狼 (zh) (jiāoláng)

• Chiricahua: ma’ye, mba’ye, mai, mbai, mai’
• Comanche: kʉtséena
• Czech: kojot (cs) m
• Danish: prærieulv (da) c, coyote (da) c
• Dutch: coyote (nl) m, prairiewolf m
• Esperanto: kojoto (eo), prerilupo
• Estonian: koiott, preeriahunt
• Finnish: kojootti (fi)
• French: coyote (fr) m
• Gabrielino-Fernandeño: 'iitar
• Georgian: ველის მგელი (velis mgeli), კოიოტი (ḳoioṭi)
• German: Kojote (de) m, Präriewolf m, Steppenwolf m
• Greek: κογιότ (el) n (kogiót)
• Guerrero Amuzgo: kítzë' jndë
• Hawaiian: kaioke
• Hebrew: זְאֵב עֲרָבוֹת (he) m (z’ev ‘aravot)
• Hidatsa: móohca
• Hindi: कायोटी (kāyoṭī)
• Hopi: iisaw
• Hungarian: prérifarkas (hu)
• Icelandic: sléttuúlfur m
• Indonesian: koyote
• Ineseño: xuxaʼw
• Irish: cadhóit f
• Italian: coyote (it) m, coiote m
• Japanese: コヨーテ (ja) (koyōte)
• Kazakh: койот (koiot)
• Korean: 코요테 (koyote)
• Kyrgyz: койот (koyot)
• Lakota: šuŋgmánitu
• Latvian: koijots m
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• Lithuanian: kojotas (lt) m
• Macedonian: којот m (kojot)
• Malagasy: kôiôty
• Malay: koyote

  Jawi: کويوتي

• Maya:

  Yucatec: utiúu

• Mixtec:

  Alcozauca Mixtec: ndivá'i

  Yosondúa Mixtec: va'u

• Mongolian: талын чоно (talyn čono)
• Nahuatl: coyotl (nah), (Isthmus-Mecayapan spelling): coyo̱'
• Navajo: mąʼii
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: prærieulv (no) m, coyote m

  Nynorsk: prærieulv m, coyote m

• O'odham: ban
• Osage: šǫ́mįhkase
• Panamint: isa
• Persian: کایوت (kâyot)
• Pipil: kuyu:t
• Polish: kojot (pl) m
• Portuguese: coiote (pt) m
• Romanian: coiot (ro) m
• Russian: койо́т (ru) m (kojót)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: којот m

  Roman: kojot (sh) m

• Seri: oot, ziix ihimoz imaa, ziix coocö
• Slovak: kojot m
• Slovene: kojót (sl) m
• Southeastern Tepehuan: bhan
• Spanish: coyote (es) m
• Swedish: prärievarg (sv) c
• Tagalog: koyote
• Tajik: койот (koyot)
• Taos: c’ȕnéna
• Thai: ไคโยตี (kai-yoo-dtîi)
• Turkish: kır kurdu
• Turkmen: şagal, koýot
• Tz'utujil: utiiw
• Ukrainian: койо́т m (kojót)
• Uzbek: koyot
• Vietnamese: sói đồng cỏ
• Zapotec:

  Isthmus: gueu'

  Yatzachi: becoyo'o

  Zoogocho: beco'yo

• Zuni: suski

smuggler

• Portuguese: coiote (pt) m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Spanish: coyote (es)

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)}

Further reading

• coyote on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• oocyte, oöcyte

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English coyote, from Spanish coyote, from a Nahuan language, from Proto-Nahuan *koyootl.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌkoːˈjoː.tə/

• audio:

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• Hyphenation: co‧yo‧te
• Rhymes: -oːtə

Noun

coyote m (plural coyotes, diminutive coyootje n)

1. coyote

   Synonym: prairiewolf

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish coyote, from a Nahuan language, from Proto-Nahuan *koyootl.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ.jɔt/

• Audio:

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Noun

coyote m (plural coyotes)

1. coyote

Further reading

• “coyote”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• côtoyé

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Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English coyote, from Spanish coyote, from a Nahuan language, from Proto-Nahuan *koyootl.

Noun

coyote m (plural coyoti)

1. coyote

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Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from a Nahuan language, from Proto-Nahuan *koyootl.

Pronunciation

•  

• IPA^(key): /koˈʝote/ [koˈʝo.t̪e]

• IPA^(key): (everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay) /koˈʝote/ [koˈʝo.t̪e]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /koˈʃote/ [koˈʃo.t̪e]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /koˈʒote/ [koˈʒo.t̪e]

• Rhymes: -ote

Noun

coyote m (plural coyotes)

1. coyote (canine)
2. (Mexico) coyote (smuggler of illegal immigrants)
3. (Mexico) fixer, middleman
4. (obsolete) a person of mixed Native American and mestizo descent

Synonyms

• (smuggler): pollo m

Derived terms

• coyota f

Descendants

• English: coyote
• French: coyote
• Japanese: コヨーテ (koyōte)

• German: Kojote
• Russian: койо́т (kojót)