ripuchí

Central Tarahumara

Etymology

From Proto-Uto-Aztecan *tïpuC-ci (“little flea”), diminutive of *tïpuC (“flea”).

Noun

ripuchí

1. flea

References

• Hilton, K. Simón (1993) Diccionario tarahumara de Samachique, Chihuahua, México (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 101)‎^[1] (in Spanish), special corrected and updated edition, Tucson: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 64
• Hilton, K. Simón with Shoemaker, Wes (2016) Diccionario tarahumara actualizado‎^[2] (in Spanish), draft edition, SIL International, page 44