Where does “coyote” come from?

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

coyote (Spanish): coyote; fixer, middleman; a person of mixed...

Definitions

  1. coyote; fixer, middleman; a person of mixed...

Ancestry of “coyote”, step by step

coyote traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Classical Nahuatl coyōtl

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Classical Nahuatlcoyōtlcoyote
2Nahuatl*koyoo-tl—

via Nahuatl coyotl

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Nahuatlcoyotlcoyote

Words derived from “coyote”

Every word from Nahuatl *koyoo-tl →