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Highland Popoluca
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish niguas, plural of nigua, from Taíno .
Noun
ñi̱was
- chigoe (Tunga penetrans)
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 92