Tsitsimat
التعريفات والمعاني
== Highland Popoluca ==
=== Etymology ===
Borrowed from a Nahuan language; cf. Classical Nahuatl tzitzimitl (a kind of female demon that descends from the sky to eat people during solar eclipses), Mecayapan Nahuatl tzitzimiꞌ (“devil, Satan”).
=== Pronunciation ===
IPA(key): /t͡siˈt͡simat/
=== Proper noun ===
Tsitsimat
a mythological being like a witch with a single central breast
=== References ===
Elson, Benjamin F.; Gutiérrez G., Donaciano (1999), Diccionario popoluca de la Sierra, Veracruz (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 41)[1] (in Spanish), Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., →ISBN, page 111