totaʼtsi
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Hopi[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Nahuatl tota'tzin (“our father”),[1] "used in respectful reference to the Spanish priests by their Nahuatl-speaking retainers. Clearly the Hopis had a very different impression."[2]
Noun[edit]
totaʼtsi
- dictator, tyrannical or bossy person
- Catholic priest
References[edit]
- ^ form and meaning of the Nahuatl word confirmed by John Bierhorst, A Nahuatl-English Dictionary and Concordance to the Cantares Mexicanos (1985)
- ^ 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)