itzcuincoyotl

Zacatlán-Ahuacatlán-Tepetzintla Nahuatl

Etymology

itzcuintli (“dog”) +‎ *coyotl (“coyote”)

Noun

itzcuincoyotl

coyote (Canis latrans)
- 2003, Elizabeth Márquez Hernández, In itzcuincoyotl uan tochtli‎, published 2005, page 1:
  Se tonal ocatca se itzcuincoyotl tlen simi omayanaya
  (One day there was a coyote that was very hungry)
  (please add an English translation of this quotation)

References

Pequeño diccionario ilustrado: Náhuatl de los municipios de Zacatlán, Tepetzintla y Ahuacatlán‎ (in Spanish), Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., 2006, page 10

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