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Papantla Totonac
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish patos (“ducks”), plural of pato (“duck”), from Andalusian Arabic , from Arabic بَطّ (baṭṭ), from Middle Persian . C.f. Classical Nahuatl pātox.
Noun
pá̱tux
- duck
References
- (1973) Diccionario totonaco de Papantla, Veracruz: Totonaco — español, español — totonaco (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas "Mariano Silva y Aceves"; 16) (in Spanish), México, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, pages 81, 142, 232