tejón
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See also: Tejon
Spanish
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Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Inherited from Old Spanish [Term?], from Late Latin taxonem, from a Germanic language, from Frankish *þahs, from Proto-Germanic *þahsuz. Compare German Dachs and Dutch das.
Alternative forms
[edit]Noun
[edit]tejón m (plural tejones)
- European badger (Meles meles)
- Synonyms: tasugo, tejón común, tejón eurasiático, tejón europeo
- American badger (Taxidea taxus)
- Synonyms: bacher, juín, perro juín, puerco juín, tejón americano, tejón norteamericano, tlalcoyote
- (Mexico) white-nosed coati (Nasua narica)
- Synonyms: antón, coatí, coatí de nariz blanca, coati pizote, chico, chico-ataj, chiic, choluga, pizote, puerco espín de la tierra, tejón mexicano, tejón pizote
- (Tabasco, Chihuahua) raccoon (Procyon lotor)
- Synonyms: chico, culú, lavador, mapache, mapachín, maxtlatón, osito lavador, oso lavandero, ratón lavandero, tejón solitario, tlamatón
- (Costa Rica) northern tamandua (Tamandua mexicana)
- kinkajou (Potos flavus)
- Synonyms: bibana, colapinta, cusumbé, godoy, hormiguero, kinkajú, marta, martes, martica, martilla, martucha, mico de noche, micoleón, micuño, oso de Michoacán, oso melero, tancho
Hyponyms
[edit]- (gregarious (female or immature male) white-nosed coati): manadero, tejón de manada, tejón manadero
- (solitary (adult male) white-nosed coati): gato solo, pizote solo, solitario, tejón solo, tejón solitario
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Tetelcingo Nahuatl: texu
References
[edit]- Schoenhals, Louise C. (1988) A Spanish - English Glossary of Mexican Flora and Fauna[1], Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 595
Etymology 2
[edit]From tejo (“tile, plate”) + -ón (augmentative suffix).
Noun
[edit]tejón m (plural tejones)
Further reading
[edit]- “tejón”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Categories:
- Spanish 2-syllable words
- Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Spanish/on
- Rhymes:Spanish/on/2 syllables
- Spanish terms inherited from Old Spanish
- Spanish terms derived from Old Spanish
- Spanish terms inherited from Late Latin
- Spanish terms derived from Late Latin
- Spanish terms derived from Germanic languages
- Spanish terms derived from Frankish
- Spanish terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish nouns
- Spanish countable nouns
- Spanish masculine nouns
- Mexican Spanish
- Costa Rican Spanish
- Spanish terms suffixed with -ón
- es:Mustelids
- es:Procyonids
- es:Anteaters and sloths