quitscandye

San Pedro Amuzgos Amuzgo

Alternative forms

• kítzká ndye

Etymology

From quitsca (“fish”). This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Noun

quitscandye (plural quintcandye)

1. locust

References

• Stewart, Cloyd, Stewart, Ruth D., colaboradores amuzgos (2000) Diccionario amuzgo de San Pedro Amuzgos, Oaxaca (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 44)‎^[1] (in Spanish), Coyoacán, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., →ISBN, pages 158–159: “quitscandye (a a m)”
• Tapia García, L. Fermín (1999) Tzoⁿ ʼtzíkindyi jñò nd'a Tzjóⁿ Noà yo jñò tzko = Diccionario amuzgo-español: El amuzgo de San Pedro Amuzgos, Oaxaca (in Spanish), CIESAS, →ISBN, page 82: “Kítzká ndye (5.5.3)”