saꞌba

Tataltepec Chatino

Etymology

Borrowed from a Mixtec language, from Proto-Mixtec *sáʔwà (“frog”). Replaced Proto-Chatino *senę.

Noun

saꞌba

1. toad

References

• Pride, Leslie, Pride, Kitty (1970) Vocabulario chatino de Tataltepec. Castellano-chatino, chatino-castellano (Serie de vocabularios indígenas Mariano Silva y Aceves; 15)‎^[1] (in Spanish), México, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, pages 37, 81