s̈á̱ntia

Sayula Popoluca

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish sandía, from Arabic سِنْدِيَّة (sindiyya, “Sindhi”), from Sanskrit सिन्धु (sindhu).

Noun

s̈á̱ntia

  1. watermelon

References

  • Clark, Lawrence E. (1995) Vocabulario popoluca de Sayula, Veracruz, México (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 104)‎[1] (in Spanish), Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 21
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