coyote

coyote

English

A coyote.

Alternative forms

• cayeute, cayota, cayote, coyoto (all obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish coyote, from a Nahuan language, from Proto-Nahuan *koyootl. Compare Chinook ki-o-tī.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /kəˈjoʊ.ti/, /kaɪˈ(j)oʊ.ti/, (especially Western US) /ˈkaɪ.(j)oʊt/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /kɔɪˈ(j)əʊt(ɪ)/

• Audio (US)

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Noun

coyote (plural coyotes)

1. Canis latrans, a species of canine native to North America.

   Synonym: prairie wolf

   • 1824, William Bullock, Six Months' Residence and Travels in Mexico, p. 119

     Near Rio Frio we shot several handsome birds, and saw a cayjotte, or wild dog, which in size nearly approached the wolf.

2. (US, informal) A smuggler of undocumented immigrants across the land border from Latin America into the United States of America.
   • 2020 July 23, Abrahm Lustgarten, “The Great Climate Migration”, in New York Times‎:

     Jorge’s father had pawned his last four goats for $2,000 to help pay for their transit, another loan the family would have to repay at 100 percent interest. The coyote called at 10 p.m. — they would go that night.

Hyponyms

• Belize coyote (Canis latrans goldmani)
• California Valley coyote (Canis latrans ochropus)
• Colima coyote (Canis latrans vigilis)
• Durango coyote (Canis latrans impavidus)
• Honduras coyote (Canis latrans hondurensis)
• Lower Rio Grande coyote (Canis latrans microdon)
• Mearns coyote (Canis latrans mearnsi)
• Mexican coyote (Canis latrans cagottis)
• mountain coyote (Canis latrans lestes)
• northern coyote (Canis latrans incolatus)
• Northeastern coyote (Canis latrans thamnos)
• Northwest Coast coyote (Canis latrans umpquensis)
• Peninsula Coyote (Canis latrans peninsulae)
• Plains coyote (Canis latrans latrans)
• Salvador coyote (Canis latrans dickeyi)
• San Pedro Martir coyote (Canis latrans clepticus)
• Southeastern coyote (Canis latrans frustror)
• Texas Plains coyote (Canis latrans texensis)
• Tiburón Island coyote (Canis latrans jamesi)

Derived terms

• anticoyote
• coydog
• coyote bush
• coyote gourd
• coyoteite
• coyotelike
• coyote melon
• Coyote State
• coyote time
• coyote tobacco
• coyote ugly
• coywolf
• dogote

 

Related terms

• coyotillo

 

Descendants

• → Irish: cadhóit

Translations

See also: Wikipedia:Coyote#Local and indigenous names

canine

Afrikaans: prêriewolf Albanian: kojotë f Apache: Western: ma’, ba’ Arabic: قَيُّوط‎ m (qayyūṭ) Armenian: դաշտագայլ (daštagayl), կոյոտ (hy) (koyot) Azerbaijani: koyyot Belarusian: каёт m (kajót) Bengali: নেকড়েবিশেষ (nekṛebiśeṣ) Bulgarian: койо́т (bg) m (kojót) Burmese: ကွိုင်းယုတ် (kwuing:yut) Cahuilla: 'isill Catalan: coiot m Ch'orti': b'ojb', b'oj Cherokee: ᏩᏯᎭ (wayaha) Cheyenne: ó'kôhóme Chinantec: Lealao: dsɨ³nuu³ Chinese: Cantonese: 郊狼 (gaau1 long4) Mandarin: 郊狼 (zh) (jiāoláng) Chiricahua: ma’ye, mba’ye, mai, mbai, mai’ Comanche: kʉtséena Cree: ᒪᐦᐃᐦᑲᓐᑖᔥᑎᒥᒄ (mahihkantaashtimikw) Czech: kojot (cs) m Danish: prærieulv (da) c, coyote (da) c Dutch: coyote (nl) m, prairiewolf m Esperanto: kojoto (eo) Estonian: koiott, preeriahunt Finnish: kojootti (fi) French: coyote (fr) m Gabrielino-Fernandeño: 'iitar Georgian: ველის მგელი (velis mgeli), კოიოტი (ḳoioṭi) German: Kojote (de) m, Präriewolf m, Steppenwolf m Greek: κογιότ (el) n (kogiót) Guerrero Amuzgo: kítzë' jndë Hawaiian: kaioke Hebrew: זְאֵב עֲרָבוֹת‎ (he) m (z’ev ‘aravot) Hidatsa: móohca Hindi: कायोटी (kāyoṭī) Hopi: iisaw Hungarian: prérifarkas (hu) Icelandic: sléttuúlfur m Indonesian: koyote Ineseño: xuxaʼw Inupiaq: amaġuuraq Irish: cadhóit f Italian: coyote (it) m, coiote m Japanese: コヨーテ (ja) (koyōte) Kazakh: шалғын қасқыры (şalğyn qasqyry), шалғынды қасқыр (şalğyndy qasqyr) Korean: 코요테 (koyote) Kyrgyz: койот (koyot) Lakota: šuŋgmánitu Latvian: koijots m Lithuanian: kojotas (lt) m Lutshootseed: sbiaw Macedonian: којот m (kojot) Malay: koyote Jawi: کويوتي‎ Mixtec: Alcozauca Mixtec: ndivá'i Yosondúa Mixtec: va'u Mongolian: талын чоно (talyn čono) Montana Salish: snč'l'e Nahuatl: Central: coyotl Central Huasteca: koyochichi Classical: coyotl Eastern Durango: koyot Eastern Huasteca: koyochichi Guerrero: kokoyotl Highland Puebla: koyot Mecayapan: coyo̱' Western Durango: koyót Western Huasteca: koyochichi Navajo: mąʼii Norwegian: Bokmål: prærieulv (no) m, coyote m Nynorsk: prærieulv m, coyote m O'odham: ban Osage: šǫ́mįhkase Panamint: isa Pawnee: ckírihki Persian: کایوت‎ (kâyot) Pipil: kuyut Plautdietsch: Kajote m Polish: kojot (pl) m Portuguese: coiote (pt) m Romanian: coiot (ro) m Russian: койо́т (ru) m (kojót) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: којот m Roman: kojot (sh) m Seri: oot, ziix ihimoz imaa, ziix coocö Slovak: kojot m Slovene: kojót (sl) m Southeastern Tepehuan: bhan Spanish: coyote (es) m Swedish: prärievarg (sv) c Tagalog: koyote Tajik: койот (koyot) Taos: c’ȕnéna Thai: ไคโยตี (kai-yoo-dtîi) Turkish: kır kurdu Turkmen: şagal, koýot Tz'utujil: utiiw Ukrainian: койо́т m (kojót) Uzbek: koyot Vietnamese: sói đồng cỏ (獪垌𦹵) Yucatec Maya: utiúu Zapotec: Aloápam: sagueo Isthmus: gueu' Yatzachi: becoyo'o Zoogocho: beco'yo Zuni: suski

smuggler

Portuguese: coiote (pt) m Spanish: coyote (es)

Verb

coyote (third-person singular simple present coyotes, present participle coyoteing or coyoting, simple past and past participle coyoted)

1. To prospect for gold by manually digging holes into overlying earth, as into a hillside.

See also

• (canids) canid; coyote, dog, fox, jackal, wolf ^{(Category: en:Canids)}

Further reading

• coyote on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• oocyte, oöcyte

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English coyote, from Spanish coyote, from a Nahuan language, from Proto-Nahuan *koyootl.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌkoːˈjoː.tə/

• audio

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• Hyphenation: co‧yo‧te
• Rhymes: -oːtə

Noun

coyote m (plural coyotes, diminutive coyootje n)

1. coyote

   Synonym: prairiewolf

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish coyote, from a Nahuan language, from Proto-Nahuan *koyootl.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ.jɔt/

• Audio

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Noun

coyote m (plural coyotes)

1. coyote

Descendants

• → Romanian: coiot

Further reading

• “coyote”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• côtoyé

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Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English coyote, from Spanish coyote, from a Nahuan language, from Proto-Nahuan *koyootl.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /koˈjɔ.te/[1]
• Rhymes: -ɔte
• Hyphenation: co‧yò‧te

Noun

coyote m (usually invariable, plural (rare, proscribed) coyoti)

1. coyote

References

1. coyote in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

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Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from a Nahuan language, from Proto-Nahuan *koyootl.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /koˈʝote/ [koˈʝo.t̪e]

• IPA^(key): (everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay) /koˈʝote/ [koˈʝo.t̪e]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /koˈʃote/ [koˈʃo.t̪e]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /koˈʒote/ [koˈʒo.t̪e]

• Audio (Spain)

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• Rhymes: -ote
• Syllabification: co‧yo‧te

Noun

coyote m (plural coyotes)

1. coyote (canine)
2. (Mexico) coyote (smuggler of illegal immigrants)

   Synonym: pollo

3. (Mexico) fixer, middleman
4. (obsolete) a person of mixed Native American and mestizo descent

Derived terms

• coyota f

Descendants

• → English: coyote
• → French: coyote
• → German: Kojote
• → Italian: coyote
• → Japanese: コヨーテ (koyōte)
• → Korean: 코요테 (koyote)
• → Russian: койо́т (kojót)
• → Tagalog: koyote

Further reading

• “coyote”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
• coyote on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es