taltuza

Italian

Noun

taltuza m (invariable)

taltuza, gopher

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Pipil tāltūsan (“gopher”). Compare Classical Nahuatl tlālli (“earth, soil”) + tozan (“gopher, mole”) (compare tuza).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): (Spain) /talˈtuθa/ [t̪al̪ˈt̪u.θa]
IPA^(key): (Latin America) /talˈtusa/ [t̪al̪ˈt̪u.sa]
(Spain) Rhymes: -uθa
(Latin America) Rhymes: -usa
Syllabification: tal‧tu‧za

Noun

taltuza f (plural taltuzas)

(Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua) gopher
Synonym: (Mexico) tuza

Further reading

“taltuza”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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