List of Spanish Words of Nahuatl Origin - Animals

Animals

  • Ajolote (Axolotl)
  • ChapulĂ­n (Grasshopper)
  • Cenzontle (Mockingbird)
  • Coyote
  • Escamoles (Ant eggs)
  • Guachinango (Red snapper)
  • Guajolote (Turkey)
  • Ocelote (Ocelot)
  • Mapache (Raccoon)
  • Mayate (Beetle)
  • Pinacate
  • Quetzal
  • Tecolote (Owl)
  • Tepezcuintle
  • Tichalote
  • Tlacuache (Opossum)
  • Xoloitzcuintli (Mexican Hairless Dog)
  • Zopilote (Vulture)

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Famous quotes containing the word animals:

    If everything is perfect, language is useless. This is true for animals. If animals don’t speak, it’s because everything’s perfect for them. If one day they start to speak, it will be because the world has lost a certain sort of perfection.
    Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929)

    Man’s unique reward, however, is that while animals survive by adjusting themselves to their background, man survives by adjusting his background to himself.
    Ayn Rand (1905–1982)

    About sacrifice and the offering of sacrifices, sacrificial animals think quite differently from those who look on: but they have never been allowed to have their say.
    Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)