yootaꞌ
Southeastern Tepehuan
Etymology
Cognate with Northern Tepehuan yoótai, O'odham hiot, Classical Nahuatl xōtla.
Verb
yootaꞌ (preterite yoo, present yoot)
- (intransitive) bloom, blossom (of a flower)
- (intransitive) pop (of popcorn)
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) (in Spanish), electronic edition, Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 186