misitu
Purepecha
Alternative forms
- miztu (obsolete)
Etymology
Borrowed from a Nahuan language; cf. Classical Nahuatl miztōn.
References
- Gilberti, Maturino (1559) Vocabulario en lengua de Mechuacan (in Spanish), Iuan Pablos Bressano, page 94r: “Gato. miztu.”
- Lathrop, Maxwell (2007) Vocabulario del idioma purépecha (in Spanish), second electronic edition, Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 10
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