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totoi o’owia
a word from vocabulary
Yaqui
by
Zarina Estrada Fernández
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Word form
totoi o’owia
LWT meaning(s)
the cock/rooster
Word meaning
the male chicken
Comments on word
Common in Yaqui usage
Analyzability
analyzable phrasal
Gloss
totoi o’ou-ia [chicken male-NMLZ]
Age
Colonial [32] (1617–1899)
Register
General
Loanword Information
Borrowed status
5. no evidence for borrowing
Comments
It is possible that the Yaqui adopted the word totoi directly form Nahuatl speakers which accompanied the Spaniards when entering the Yaqui lands.
Source words
totolin
'the chicken'
Spanish
totolin
'the bird'
Nahuatl
Effect
Insertion
Salience
Present only since contact
Contact situation
Spanish contact [32]
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