tuumiñ

Southeastern Tepehuan

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish tomín (“a coin equivalent to ¹⁄₈ of a castellano”), from Andalusian Arabic ثُمْن (ṯúmn, “one eighth”), from Arabic ثُمْن (ṯumn).

Noun

tuumiñ

1. money

References

• 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 175