wichá

See also: Wicha and wičhá

Central Tarahumara

Alternative forms

• huichá

Etymology

Cognate with Mayo huitcha (“spine”), Classical Nahuatl huitztli (“spine”).

Noun

wichá

1. needle (clarification of this definition is needed)

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 34
• Hilton, K. Simón with Shoemaker, Wes (2016) Diccionario tarahumara actualizado‎^[2] (in Spanish), draft edition, SIL International, page 56