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tzopilotl

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Central Nahuatl

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Alternative forms

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Noun

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tzopilotl (animate)

  1. turkey vulture

Classical Nahuatl

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Etymology

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From Proto-Nahuan *ȼopiiloo-tl.[1]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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tzopīlōtl

  1. A vulture or buzzard.

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Spanish: zopilote

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Campbell, Lyle; Langacker, Ronald W. (October 1978), “Proto-Aztecan Vowels: Part III”, in International Journal of American Linguistics, volume 44, number 4, page 263 of 262–279: “(23) buzzard *ȼopiiloo-”
  • Campbell, R. Joe (1997), “Florentine Codex Vocabulary”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎[1], archived from the original on 20 February 2011
  • Karttunen, Francis (1983), An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl, Austin: University of Texas Press, page 319
  • Lockhart, James (2001), Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts, Stanford: Stanford University Press, page 241
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