cuy
Highland Popoluca
References
- Elson, Benjamin F., Gutiérrez G., Donaciano (1999) Diccionario popoluca de la Sierra, Veracruz (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 41) (in Spanish), Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., →ISBN, page 21
Spanish
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkui/ [ˈkui̯]
Audio (Peru): (file) - Rhymes: -ui
- Syllabification: cuy
Noun
cuy m (plural cuyes)
- guinea pig
- Synonym: conejillo de Indias
- guinea pig meat (eaten especially in the Andes; see the Wikipedia article)
Further reading
- “cuy”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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