Reconstruction:Proto-Nahuan/koyootl

This Proto-Nahuan entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Nahuan

Etymology

From Proto-Uto-Aztecan *kʷa (“coyote”). Compare O'odham ban, Serrano wahei (“coyote”), Hopi kʷew (“wolf”).^[1]

Noun

*koyootl

coyote

Descendants

Classical Nahuatl: coyōtl
- Central Huasteca Nahuatl: koyotl
- Eastern Huasteca Nahuatl: coyotl
- Mecayapan Nahuatl: coyo̱ꞌ
- Morelos Nahuatl: koyotl
- Northern Oaxaca Nahuatl: kóyotl
- Tetelcingo Nahuatl: coyutl
- Western Huasteca Nahuatl: koyotl
Pipil: kuyūt
→ Spanish: coyote
- → English: coyote
- → French: coyote
  - → Romanian: coiot
  - → Persian: کایوت (kâyot)
- → German: Kojote
- → Italian: coyote
- → Japanese: コヨーテ (koyōte)
- → Korean: 코요테 (koyote)
- → Russian: койо́т (kojót)
- → Tagalog: koyote

References

Campbell, Lyle, Langacker, Ronald W. (October 1978) “Proto-Aztecan Vowels: Part III”, in International Journal of American Linguistics, volume 44, number 4, pages 262–279: “(39) coyote *koyoo-”

^ “coyote”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.

[1] “coyote”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.

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