"coyametl" meaning in Classical Nahuatl

See coyametl in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: [koˈja.met͡ɬ] Forms: coyamemeh [plural]
Etymology: Prior to the introduction of suids to the Americas during European colonization, coyametl referred to the gregarious peccary. Its relative likeness to European pigs resulted in an extension of meaning. See also ichcatl and mazātl. Head templates: {{head|nci|nouns|animate||plural|coyamemeh|||cat2=|f1accel-form=p|f2accel-form=p|head=}} coyametl (animate, plural coyamemeh), {{nci-noun|a|pl=coyamemeh}} coyametl (animate, plural coyamemeh)
  1. pig Tags: animate Categories (lifeform): Pigs Derived forms: coyamecalli, coyamechiyāhuacāyōtl, coyameconētl, coyameēltzotzolli, coyamenacahuatzalli, coyamepixqui, coyametepitōn, coyametōntli

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for coyametl meaning in Classical Nahuatl (2.6kB)

{
  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "es",
            "2": "coyámel",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Spanish: coyámel",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Spanish: coyámel"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Prior to the introduction of suids to the Americas during European colonization, coyametl referred to the gregarious peccary. Its relative likeness to European pigs resulted in an extension of meaning. See also ichcatl and mazātl.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "coyamemeh",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "nci",
        "2": "nouns",
        "3": "animate",
        "4": "",
        "5": "plural",
        "6": "coyamemeh",
        "7": "",
        "8": "",
        "cat2": "",
        "f1accel-form": "p",
        "f2accel-form": "p",
        "head": ""
      },
      "expansion": "coyametl (animate, plural coyamemeh)",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "a",
        "pl": "coyamemeh"
      },
      "expansion": "coyametl (animate, plural coyamemeh)",
      "name": "nci-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Classical Nahuatl",
  "lang_code": "nci",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Classical Nahuatl entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Classical Nahuatl entries with topic categories using raw markup",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with topic categories using raw markup",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "lifeform",
          "langcode": "nci",
          "name": "Pigs",
          "orig": "nci:Pigs",
          "parents": [
            "Even-toed ungulates",
            "Livestock",
            "Mammals",
            "Agriculture",
            "Animals",
            "Vertebrates",
            "Applied sciences",
            "Lifeforms",
            "Chordates",
            "Sciences",
            "All topics",
            "Life",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nature"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "coyamecalli"
        },
        {
          "word": "coyamechiyāhuacāyōtl"
        },
        {
          "word": "coyameconētl"
        },
        {
          "word": "coyameēltzotzolli"
        },
        {
          "word": "coyamenacahuatzalli"
        },
        {
          "word": "coyamepixqui"
        },
        {
          "word": "coyametepitōn"
        },
        {
          "word": "coyametōntli"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "A male or female pig. coyametl.",
          "ref": "1555, Alonso de Molina, Aqui comienca vn vocabulario en la lengua castellana y mexicana, f. 204r",
          "text": "Puerco o puerca· coyametl.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "english": "A male or female pig. coyametl. pitzotl.",
          "ref": "1571, Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, f. 99v. col. 1",
          "text": "Puerco o puerca . coyemetl. pitzotl.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "text": "Idem, f. 24r. col. 1.\nCoyameme. puercos. […] / Coyametl.puerco.\nCoyameme. pigs. […] / Coyametl. a pig."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "pig"
      ],
      "id": "en-coyametl-nci-noun-8LjJ2E3S",
      "links": [
        [
          "pig",
          "pig"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "animate"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[koˈja.met͡ɬ]"
    }
  ],
  "word": "coyametl"
}
{
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "coyamecalli"
    },
    {
      "word": "coyamechiyāhuacāyōtl"
    },
    {
      "word": "coyameconētl"
    },
    {
      "word": "coyameēltzotzolli"
    },
    {
      "word": "coyamenacahuatzalli"
    },
    {
      "word": "coyamepixqui"
    },
    {
      "word": "coyametepitōn"
    },
    {
      "word": "coyametōntli"
    }
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "es",
            "2": "coyámel",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Spanish: coyámel",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Spanish: coyámel"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Prior to the introduction of suids to the Americas during European colonization, coyametl referred to the gregarious peccary. Its relative likeness to European pigs resulted in an extension of meaning. See also ichcatl and mazātl.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "coyamemeh",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "nci",
        "2": "nouns",
        "3": "animate",
        "4": "",
        "5": "plural",
        "6": "coyamemeh",
        "7": "",
        "8": "",
        "cat2": "",
        "f1accel-form": "p",
        "f2accel-form": "p",
        "head": ""
      },
      "expansion": "coyametl (animate, plural coyamemeh)",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "a",
        "pl": "coyamemeh"
      },
      "expansion": "coyametl (animate, plural coyamemeh)",
      "name": "nci-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Classical Nahuatl",
  "lang_code": "nci",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Classical Nahuatl entries with incorrect language header",
        "Classical Nahuatl entries with topic categories using raw markup",
        "Classical Nahuatl lemmas",
        "Classical Nahuatl nouns",
        "Classical Nahuatl terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "Classical Nahuatl terms with quotations",
        "nci:Pigs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "A male or female pig. coyametl.",
          "ref": "1555, Alonso de Molina, Aqui comienca vn vocabulario en la lengua castellana y mexicana, f. 204r",
          "text": "Puerco o puerca· coyametl.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "english": "A male or female pig. coyametl. pitzotl.",
          "ref": "1571, Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, f. 99v. col. 1",
          "text": "Puerco o puerca . coyemetl. pitzotl.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "text": "Idem, f. 24r. col. 1.\nCoyameme. puercos. […] / Coyametl.puerco.\nCoyameme. pigs. […] / Coyametl. a pig."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "pig"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "pig",
          "pig"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "animate"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[koˈja.met͡ɬ]"
    }
  ],
  "word": "coyametl"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Classical Nahuatl dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-06-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-06-06 using wiktextract (6c02f21 and 0136956). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.