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San Miguel el Grande Mixtec
Etymology
From Proto-Mixtec *yɨyɨ.
Noun
yiyī
- white-nosed coati (Nasua narica)
References
- Dyk, Anne, Stoudt, Betty (1965) Vocabulario mixteco de San Miguel el Grande (Serie de vocabularios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 12) (in Spanish), México, D.F.: El Instituto Lingüístico de Verano en coordinación con la Secretaría de Educación Pública a través de la Dirección General de Educación Extraescolar en el Medio Indígena, published 1973, pages 53, 110