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Central Tarahumara
Etymology
Borrowed from a Nahuan language; cf. Classical Nahuatl tōtolin (“turkey hen; chicken”).
Noun
tolí
- chicken (clarification of this definition is needed)
References
- Hilton, K. Simón (1993) Diccionario tarahumara de Samachique, Chihuahua, México (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 101) (in Spanish), special corrected and updated edition, Tucson: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 74
- Hilton, K. Simón with Shoemaker, Wes (2016) Diccionario tarahumara actualizado (in Spanish), draft edition, SIL International, page 53