sandiiyas

Southeastern Tepehuan

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish sandías, plural of sandía, from Andalusian Arabic *سَنْدِيَّة (*sandíyya), from Arabic سِنْدِيَّة (sindiyya, “Sindhi”), from Sanskrit सिन्धु (sindhu).

Noun

sandiiyas

  1. watermelon

References

  • R. de Willett, Elizabeth, et al. (2016) Diccionario tepehuano de Santa María Ocotán, Durango (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 48)‎[1] (in Spanish), electronic edition, Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 150
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