Reconstruction:Proto-Nahuan/koyoo-

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 *kayoC-ta.[1]

Compare O'odham ban, Serrano wahei (“coyote”) and Hopi kwewu (“wolf”).[2]

Noun

*koyoo-tl

  1. coyote

Descendants

  • Classical Nahuatl: coyōtl
  • Pipil: kuyūt
  • → Spanish: coyote

References

  1. ^ Stubbs, Brian D. (2020) [2011], “570. *kayoC ‘coyote, fox’”, in Uto-Aztecan: A comparative vocabulary‎[1], revised online edition, Flower Mound, Texas: Shumway Family History Services, page 134
  2. ^ “coyote”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
  • Campbell, Lyle; Langacker, Ronald W. (October 1978), “Proto-Aztecan Vowels: Part III”, in International Journal of American Linguistics, volume 44, number 4, page 263 of 262–279: “(39) coyote *koyoo-”
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