tokotsi

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Hopi[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Ute, filling a lexical gap which was apparently left when moosa shifted to meaning "domestic cat".[1]

Noun[edit]

tokotsi

  1. wildcat (animal)
  2. ill-tempered person

References[edit]

  1. ^ 1998, Kenneth C. Hill, Spanish loanwords in Hopi, in The Life of Language: Papers in Linguistics in Honor of William Bright (edited by Jane H. Hill, P. J. Mistry, Lyle Campbell), page 22

Further reading[edit]

  • A Concise Hopi and English Lexicon (→ISBN, 1985)
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