Where does “kojot” come from?

kojot (Serbo-Croatian) comes from Spanish coyote, from Classical Nahuatl coyōtl, from Nahuatl *koyoo-tl.

kojot (Serbo-Croatian): coyote

Definitions

  1. coyote

Ancestry of “kojot”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Spanishcoyotecoyote; fixer, middleman; a person of mixed...
2Classical Nahuatlcoyōtlcoyote
3Nahuatl*koyoo-tl—
Every word from Nahuatl *koyoo-tl →