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Etymology
Borrowed from a Nahuan language (cf. Classical Nahuatl tomīn), from Spanish tomín (“a coin equal to an eight of a peso”), from Andalusian Arabic , from Arabic ثُمْن (ṯumn, “one-eighth”).
Noun
túmiin
- money
References
- McMahon, Ambrosio, Aiton de McMahon, Maria (1959) Cora y español (Serie de vocabularios indígenas Mariano Silva y Aceves; 2) (in Spanish), México, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, pages 34, 66, 183
- Preuss, K. Th. (1935 June) “Wörterbuch Deutsch-Cora”, in International Journal of American Linguistics (in German), volume VIII, number 2, →DOI, →JSTOR, pages 81–102: “Geld tumin”