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Mecayapan Nahuatl
Etymology
Borrowed from Highland Popoluca .
Pronunciation
Noun
jo̱nchoꞌ
- a legendary animal resembling a gorilla
1994, Esteban Pérez Ramírez, Ita̱tapohualis se̱ pe̱lo yej pox maya̱naya, 2nd edition, México, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 7:Entoncej iami̱goj jo̱nchoꞌ quicontesta̱roj ijquí̱n.- Then his friend the jo̱nchoꞌ replied thus.
2014, Teobaldo Bautista Martínez, “Jonchoʼ”, in 4ª antología literaria en lenguas indígenas del estado de Veracruz, Academia Veracruzana de las Lenguas Indígenas, →ISBN, page 101:Totajwan ikya kipowayaj iga pan kuayoj chantitoya se jonchoʼ yeh poxsan tamajmajtiaya.- Our fathers long ago said that in the forest there lived a jonchoʼ that was very scary.
References
- Wolgemuth, Carl et al. (2002) Diccionario náhuatl de los municipios de Mecayapan y Tatahuicapan de Juárez, Veracruz (in Spanish), second electronic edition, Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 76