cíbolo

Spanish

Etymology

Derived from Cíbola, with a change of gender from feminine to masculine; then, borrowed from Zuni Shiwina.[1][2]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈθibolo/ [ˈθi.β̞o.lo] (Spain)
  • IPA(key): /ˈsibolo/ [ˈsi.β̞o.lo] (Latin America, Philippines)
  • Rhymes: -ibolo
  • Syllabification: cí‧bo‧lo

Noun

cíbolo m (plural cíbolos)

  1. (New Mexico) buffalo (North American bison)

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References

  1. ^ Rubén Cobos (30 June 2003) A Dictionary of New Mexico and Southern Colorado Spanish: Revised and Expanded Edition, Museum of New Mexico Press, →ISBN, page 62: “Cíbola f [Col. NM Sp. Cibola, fr. Zuni Shiwina, tribal range] early sixteenth century Spanish name for Zuni and all the lands which later (1582) became known as Nueba Mexico. […] cíbolo m [NM-CO Sp. cibolo, fr. Sp. Cibola] buffalo.”
  2. ^ Simon Romero (9 April 2023) “New Mexico Is Losing a Form of Spanish Spoken Nowhere Else on Earth”, in The New York Times‎[1], archived from the original on 28 August 2024, retrieved 9 April 2023: “They incorporated Indigenous words like chimal (shield) from Náhuatl, chimayó (obsidian flake) from Tewa and cíbolo (buffalo) from Zuñi, as well as bisnes (business), crismes (Christmas), sanamagón (son of a gun) and many others from English.”

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