tzopilotl

Central Nahuatl

Alternative forms

Noun

tzopilotl (animate)

  1. turkey vulture

Classical Nahuatl

Etymology

From Proto-Nahuan *ȼopiiloo-tl.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tsopiːloːtɬ/

Noun

tzopīlōtl

  1. A vulture or buzzard.

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Spanish: zopilote

See also

References

  1. ^ 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: “(23) buzzard *ȼopiiloo-”
  • Campbell, R. Joe (1997), “Florentine Codex Vocabulary”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎[1], archived from the original on 20 February 2011
  • Karttunen, Francis (1983), An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl, Austin: University of Texas Press, page 319
  • Lockhart, James (2001), Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts, Stanford: Stanford University Press, page 241
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