Hopi

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Etymology

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From Ute, filling a lexical gap which was apparently left when moosa shifted to meaning "domestic cat".[1]

Noun

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tokotsi

  1. wildcat (animal)
  2. ill-tempered person

References

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  1. ^ 1998, Kenneth C. Hill, Spanish loanwords in Hopi, in The Life of Language: Papers in Linguistics in Honor of William Bright (edited by Jane H. Hill, P. J. Mistry, Lyle Campbell), page 22

Further reading

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  • A Concise Hopi and English Lexicon (→ISBN, 1985)