"coyotl" meaning in Classical Nahuatl

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Noun

IPA: /ˈkojoːt͡ɬ/ Forms: coyōtl [animate, canonical], cōcoyoh [plural], coiotl [alternative, obsolete], cuyutl [alternative, obsolete]
Etymology: From Proto-Nahuan *koyootl. Etymology templates: {{inh|nci|azc-nah-pro|*koyootl}} Proto-Nahuan *koyootl Head templates: {{head|nci|noun|plural|cōcoyoh|g=an|head=coyōtl}} coyōtl anim (plural cōcoyoh)
  1. coyote (Canis latrans) Wikipedia link: Coyote Derived forms: coyōnehnemi, cuetlāchcoyōtl, itzcuincoyōtl, tlālcoyōtl, āzcacoyōtl, Coyohuahcan, Coyotepec, Huehuecoyotl

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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  "descendants": [
    {
      "lang": "Central Huasteca Nahuatl",
      "lang_code": "nch",
      "word": "koyotl"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Central Nahuatl",
      "lang_code": "nhn",
      "word": "coyotl"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Central Nahuatl",
      "lang_code": "nhn",
      "word": "koyot"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Guerrero Nahuatl",
      "lang_code": "ngu",
      "word": "koyotl"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Pipil",
      "lang_code": "ppl",
      "word": "kuyut"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Western Huasteca Nahuatl",
      "lang_code": "nhw",
      "word": "koyotl"
    },
    {
      "descendants": [
        {
          "lang": "French",
          "lang_code": "fr",
          "raw_tags": [
            "borrowed"
          ],
          "word": "coyote"
        },
        {
          "lang": "English",
          "lang_code": "en",
          "raw_tags": [
            "borrowed"
          ],
          "word": "coyote"
        },
        {
          "lang": "German",
          "lang_code": "de",
          "raw_tags": [
            "borrowed"
          ],
          "word": "Coyote"
        },
        {
          "lang": "German",
          "lang_code": "de",
          "raw_tags": [
            "borrowed"
          ],
          "word": "Kojote"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Lithuanian",
          "lang_code": "lt",
          "raw_tags": [
            "borrowed"
          ],
          "word": "kojotas"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "lang_code": "pt",
          "raw_tags": [
            "borrowed"
          ],
          "word": "coiote"
        }
      ],
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "lang_code": "es",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "coyote"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "nci",
        "2": "azc-nah-pro",
        "3": "*koyootl"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Nahuan *koyootl",
      "name": "inh"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Proto-Nahuan *koyootl.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "coyōtl",
      "tags": [
        "animate",
        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cōcoyoh",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "coiotl",
      "tags": [
        "alternative",
        "obsolete"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cuyutl",
      "tags": [
        "alternative",
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "nci",
        "2": "noun",
        "3": "plural",
        "4": "cōcoyoh",
        "g": "an",
        "head": "coyōtl"
      },
      "expansion": "coyōtl anim (plural cōcoyoh)",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Classical Nahuatl",
  "lang_code": "nci",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Classical Nahuatl entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Classical Nahuatl terms using regularized orthography",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 3 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "nci",
          "name": "Mammals",
          "orig": "nci:Mammals",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "coyōnehnemi"
        },
        {
          "word": "cuetlāchcoyōtl"
        },
        {
          "word": "itzcuincoyōtl"
        },
        {
          "word": "tlālcoyōtl"
        },
        {
          "word": "āzcacoyōtl"
        },
        {
          "word": "Coyohuahcan"
        },
        {
          "word": "Coyotepec"
        },
        {
          "word": "Huehuecoyotl"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              44,
              50
            ],
            [
              88,
              94
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "1555, Alonso de Molina, Aqui comienca un vocabulario en la lengua castellana y mexicana:",
          "text": "[f. 156v] Lobo o loba, o adiue. cuetlachtli.cuyutl.mayaquen.\n[f. 245r] Zorra o rrapoſa. coyotl.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "english": "(a man came upon a coyote sitting on the grassy plain)",
          "ref": "16C: Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex, book 11, chapter 1, paragraph 2",
          "text": "Ce tlacatl ipã qujçato: çacatla, eoatica, in coiotl",
          "translation": "(a man came upon a coyote sitting on the grassy plain)"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "coyote (Canis latrans)"
      ],
      "id": "en-coyotl-nci-noun-P0bgs0r9",
      "links": [
        [
          "coyote",
          "coyote"
        ],
        [
          "Canis latrans",
          "Canis latrans#Translingual"
        ]
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Coyote"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈkojoːt͡ɬ/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "coyotl"
}
{
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "coyōnehnemi"
    },
    {
      "word": "cuetlāchcoyōtl"
    },
    {
      "word": "itzcuincoyōtl"
    },
    {
      "word": "tlālcoyōtl"
    },
    {
      "word": "āzcacoyōtl"
    },
    {
      "word": "Coyohuahcan"
    },
    {
      "word": "Coyotepec"
    },
    {
      "word": "Huehuecoyotl"
    }
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "lang": "Central Huasteca Nahuatl",
      "lang_code": "nch",
      "word": "koyotl"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Central Nahuatl",
      "lang_code": "nhn",
      "word": "coyotl"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Central Nahuatl",
      "lang_code": "nhn",
      "word": "koyot"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Guerrero Nahuatl",
      "lang_code": "ngu",
      "word": "koyotl"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Pipil",
      "lang_code": "ppl",
      "word": "kuyut"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Western Huasteca Nahuatl",
      "lang_code": "nhw",
      "word": "koyotl"
    },
    {
      "descendants": [
        {
          "lang": "French",
          "lang_code": "fr",
          "raw_tags": [
            "borrowed"
          ],
          "word": "coyote"
        },
        {
          "lang": "English",
          "lang_code": "en",
          "raw_tags": [
            "borrowed"
          ],
          "word": "coyote"
        },
        {
          "lang": "German",
          "lang_code": "de",
          "raw_tags": [
            "borrowed"
          ],
          "word": "Coyote"
        },
        {
          "lang": "German",
          "lang_code": "de",
          "raw_tags": [
            "borrowed"
          ],
          "word": "Kojote"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Lithuanian",
          "lang_code": "lt",
          "raw_tags": [
            "borrowed"
          ],
          "word": "kojotas"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "lang_code": "pt",
          "raw_tags": [
            "borrowed"
          ],
          "word": "coiote"
        }
      ],
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "lang_code": "es",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "coyote"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "nci",
        "2": "azc-nah-pro",
        "3": "*koyootl"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Nahuan *koyootl",
      "name": "inh"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Proto-Nahuan *koyootl.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "coyōtl",
      "tags": [
        "animate",
        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cōcoyoh",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "coiotl",
      "tags": [
        "alternative",
        "obsolete"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cuyutl",
      "tags": [
        "alternative",
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "nci",
        "2": "noun",
        "3": "plural",
        "4": "cōcoyoh",
        "g": "an",
        "head": "coyōtl"
      },
      "expansion": "coyōtl anim (plural cōcoyoh)",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Classical Nahuatl",
  "lang_code": "nci",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Classical Nahuatl animate nouns",
        "Classical Nahuatl entries with incorrect language header",
        "Classical Nahuatl lemmas",
        "Classical Nahuatl nouns",
        "Classical Nahuatl terms derived from Proto-Nahuan",
        "Classical Nahuatl terms inherited from Proto-Nahuan",
        "Classical Nahuatl terms using regularized orthography",
        "Classical Nahuatl terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 3 entries",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "Requests for translations of Classical Nahuatl quotations",
        "nci:Mammals"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              44,
              50
            ],
            [
              88,
              94
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "1555, Alonso de Molina, Aqui comienca un vocabulario en la lengua castellana y mexicana:",
          "text": "[f. 156v] Lobo o loba, o adiue. cuetlachtli.cuyutl.mayaquen.\n[f. 245r] Zorra o rrapoſa. coyotl.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "english": "(a man came upon a coyote sitting on the grassy plain)",
          "ref": "16C: Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex, book 11, chapter 1, paragraph 2",
          "text": "Ce tlacatl ipã qujçato: çacatla, eoatica, in coiotl",
          "translation": "(a man came upon a coyote sitting on the grassy plain)"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "coyote (Canis latrans)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "coyote",
          "coyote"
        ],
        [
          "Canis latrans",
          "Canis latrans#Translingual"
        ]
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Coyote"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈkojoːt͡ɬ/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "coyotl"
}

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