Mexican wild cats :: erratum

[Michael Mccafferty]

I can't be sure, Anthony, but I believe this is another term for mountain
lion. Someone else will chime in, I'm sure, to affirm this or offer
something else. A salient feature of this cat is its tail, cuitlatl. The
same idea shows up elsewhere in native American languages, as for example
in Algonquian.



On Tue, 23 May 2000 anthony.appleyard at umist.ac.uk wrote:

> Sorry, erratum: my emailer's spelling checker suddenly decided to act
> silly. I wrote:-
>
> ... A Nahuatl / English bilingual example in Andrews's textbook
> describes a big Mexican wild cat called the {cuitlamiztli}, ...
> Anthony Appleyard
>
>


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