coyotl

• (Amecameca, Jaltocán, Tlaxcala and Texcoco) koyotl
• (Canoa) coyutl

Coyotl, “coyote”.

From Proto-Nahuan *koyootl. Classical Nahuatl coyotl.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkojoːtɬ/

coyotl anim (plural coyomeh)

1. (Calpan, Cholula and Milpa Alta) coyote.

• (coyote): koyochichi (Nanacamilpa)
• (coyote): itzkuinkoyotl (Texcoco)

• Medina, Genaro (1999); online Curso de Náhuatl, Universidad de las Américas; San Pedro Cholula, Puebla, Mexico.
• Mancilla Sepúlveda, Héctor (2002); Lecciones de Náhuatl, Editorial Hirata; Mexico City, Mexico.

• coiotl, cuyutl (obsolete)

Coyotl, “coyote”.

From Proto-Nahuan *koyootl.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkojoːt͡ɬ/

coyotl anim (plural cocoyoh)

1. coyote (Canis latrans)
   • 1555, Alonso de Molina, Aqui comienca un vocabulario en la lengua castellana y mexicana:

     [f. 156v] Lobo o loba, o adiue. cuetlachtli.cuyutl.mayaquen.
     [f. 245r] Zorra o rrapoſa. coyotl.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 16C: Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex, book 11, chapter 1, paragraph 2

     Ce tlacatl ipã qujçato: çacatla, eoatica, in coiotl

     (a man came upon a coyote sitting on the grassy plain)

• Central Huasteca Nahuatl: koyotl
• Central Nahuatl: coyotl
• Central Nahuatl: koyot
• Guerrero Nahuatl: koyotl
• Pipil: kuyut
• Western Huasteca Nahuatl: koyotl
• → Spanish: coyote
  • → French: coyote
  • → English: coyote
  • → Lithuanian: kojotas
  • → Portuguese: coiote

• Karttunen, Frances (1983) An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl, Austin: University of Texas Press, page 43
• Sahagún, Bernardino de (1963) Charles E. Dibble, Arthur J. O. Anderson, transl., Florentine Codex, Book 11 - Earthly Things, Salt Lake City: The University of Utah Press, page 7
• Andrews, J. Richard (2003) Workbook for Introduction to Classical Nahuatl, rev. ed. edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, page 214

coyotl

1. Obsolete spelling of koyotl

• Sullivan, John; Olko, Justyna (2016); Tlahtolxitlauhcayotl, Chicontepec, Veracruz, Editorial Artes Liberales, Revitalizing Endangered Languages, IDIEZ, University of Warsow, Poland.