chichimeca (false etymology/mnemonic/rude joke)

[John F. Schwaller]

I didn't do all my home work when I first posted and inadvertently 
reaffirmed a false assumption.  Going back to Karttunen's Dictionary, 
I now see that the word "chichimeca" has long vowels, I hadn't 
realized.  In fact the word is : chi:chi:me:catl  She goes on to note 
that as a result of the vowel length the word is NOT related to words 
for dog, rags, or bitter.  "It is possibly derivationally related to 
chi:chi:- 'to suckle.'"

So in fact the word is NOT derived from dog, but from something else, 
possibly "to suckle."



John F. Schwaller
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