Southeastern Tepehuan edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from a Nahuan language, from Spanish sábado, from Latin sabbatum, from Ancient Greek σάββατον (sábbaton, Sabbath), from Hebrew שַׁבָּת (shabát). C.f. Northern Tepehuan saapátuku.

Noun edit

saapat

  1. Saturday

References edit

  • R. de Willett, Elizabeth, et al. (2016) Diccionario tepehuano de Santa María Ocotán, Durango (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 48)‎[1] (in Spanish), electronic edition, Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 148