tuumiñ

Southeastern Tepehuan

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish tomín (“a coin equivalent to ⅛ of a castellano”), from Andalusian Arabic [script needed] (ṯúmn, “one eighth”), from Arabic ثُمْن‎ (ṯumn).

Noun

tuumiñ

  1. money

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 175
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