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Highland Totonac
Etymology
Borrowed from a Nahuan language. Cf. Classical Nahuatl tēntzoneh (literally “bearded”).
Noun
tīntzun
- goat (Capra aegagrus hircus)
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 126