taltuzanin Alan King's standard spelling: taltusan
Todd (1953) · Nahuizalco
- Spanish
- rata montés
- Alan King's note
- ?
taltusan
noun/tal·tu·san/
Meanings
- 1
pocket gopher
Documented in Nahuizalco: Todd (1953), Izalco: Schultze Jena (1935), recorded 1930, Cuisnahuat: Campbell (1985), recorded 1970–1976
Sources: Schultze Jena (1935), Todd (1953), Campbell (1985), Hernández (2019), Ordóñez (2026)
Forms
- plural
- tajtaltusan · Sources: Campbell (1985)
In the texts
- taltusanonce
The records this word rests on, as each source gives them, with reading errors from the scans corrected.
- taltusan
Schultze Jena (1935) · Izalco
- Spanish
- taltusa
- ta:ltu:sanin Alan King's standard spelling: taltusan
Campbell (1985) · Cuisnahuat, Santo Domingo de Guzmán
- Town
- Cuisnahuat (Q)
- Spanish
- taltusa
- Spanish
- tusa
- English
- gopher (pocket gopher)
- Plural
- tahta:ltu:san
- See also
- ta:l "ground, dirt"
- On the etymology
- CN cf. toçan (Sim.) especie de topo
- Town
- Santo Domingo de Guzmán (W)
- Taltusan
Hernández (2019) · No town
- Spanish
- taltuza (zoo)
- As printed
- Taltusan taltuza (zoo)
- taltusan
Ordóñez (2026) · No town
- Scientific name
- Orthogeomys grandis
- Definition
- [Orthogeomys grandis] taltuza.
sus.- As printed
- taltusan sus. [Orthogeomys grandis] taltuza.
Sources
- Schultze Jena, Mythen in der Muttersprache der Pipil von Izalco (1935), recorded 1930
- Todd, Notas del náhuat de Nahuizalco (1953)
- Campbell, The Pipil Language of El Salvador (1985), recorded 1970–1976
- Hernández, Nawat Mujmusta (2019)
- Ordóñez, Diccionario náhuat (2026)