pá̱tux

Papantla Totonac

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish patos (“ducks”), plural of pato (“duck”), from Andalusian Arabic [Term?], from Arabic بَطّ (baṭṭ), from Middle Persian [Term?]. C.f. Classical Nahuatl pātox.

Noun

pá̱tux

1. duck

References

• [Aschmann, Hermann P.; Aschmann, Elizabeth] (1973) Diccionario totonaco de Papantla, Veracruz: Totonaco — español, español — totonaco (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas "Mariano Silva y Aceves"; 16)‎^[1] (in Spanish), México, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, pages 81, 142, 232