coyoteとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• cayeute, cayota, cayote, coyoto (all 廃れた用法)

語源

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

発音

• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /kəˈjoʊ.ti/, /kaɪˈ(j)oʊ.ti/, (especially Western 米国発音) /ˈkaɪ.(j)oʊt/
• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /kɔɪˈ(j)əʊt(ɪ)/

名詞

coyote (複数形 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^[1]:

     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.

下位語

派生語

関連する語

派生した語

• → Irish: cadhóit

動詞

coyote (三人称単数 現在形 coyotes, 現在分詞 coyoteing または coyoting, 過去形および過去分詞形 coyoted)

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

参考

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

Further reading

• coyote on Wikipedia.

アナグラム

• oocyte, oöcyte