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Highland Totonac
Etymology
Borrowed from a Nahuan language.
Noun
māpachīn
- raccoon (Procyon lotor)
References
- Aschmann, Herman P. (1983) Castellano-totonaco, totonaco-castellano: Dialecto de la sierra (Serie de vocabularios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 7), second edition, México, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 99