Highland Popoluca edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Spanish niguas, plural of nigua, from Taíno [Term?].

Noun edit

ñi̱was

  1. chigoe (Tunga penetrans)

References edit

  • Elson, Benjamin F., Gutiérrez G., Donaciano (1999) Diccionario popoluca de la Sierra, Veracruz (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 41)‎[1] (in Spanish), Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., →ISBN, page 92