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San Lucas Quiaviní Zapotec talking dictionary

San Lucas Quiaviní Zapotec

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version 7.2023

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The San Lucas Quiaviní Zapotec Talking Dictionary currently has 2295 entries, with 1850 audio files and 185 images.
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becw [+]

[ bèe’cw ]

   dog

( Spanish ) perro

Speaker: Felipe H. Lopez


Semantic domains:

  • animal
  • CC L02
  • CC L05
  • CC S-06
tap [+]

[ tahp ]

   four

( Spanish ) cuatro

Speaker: Felipe H. Lopez


Semantic domains:

  • number
  • CC L04
  • CC L08
  • CC S-05
guzh [+]

Speaker: Gerardo López

ngats [+]

[ ngaàa’ts ]

   yellow

( Spanish ) amarillo

Speaker: Felipe H. Lopez

Example: Bicya lazha cagyilya colory ngats ni basana, ngatsgyiaru na ni binylua, lag ngatsii? see more on Twitter


Semantic domains:

  • CC L19
dub bcwel [+]

[ dùub bcwèel ]

   type of maguey, type of agave

( Spanish ) tipo de maguey

Speaker: Felipe H. Lopez


Semantic domains:

  • plants
bzeiny [+]

[ bzèiny ]

   deer

( Spanish ) venado

Speaker: Victoria Lopez


Semantic domains:

  • animal
  • CC L03
  • CC L11
  • CC S-06
bxady [+]

[ bx:àady ]

   chapulin (edible grasshopper)

( Spanish ) chapulín

Speaker: Felipe H. Lopez

Example: Tu ryulaz rau bxady? Who likes to eat chapulines? ¿A quién le gusta come chapulines? Qui aime manger chapulines? see more on Twitter


Semantic domains:

  • food
  • animal
  • insect
  • CC L06
  • CC S-06
cwanady [+]

[ cwàa’nàa’dy ]

   type of plant (used to treat arthritis)

( Spanish ) tipo de planta (se usa a tratar la artritis)

Speaker: Felipe H. Lopez


Semantic domains:

  • plants
guëizh [+]

[ gëë’ihzh ]

   maguey fiber

( Spanish ) fibre de maguey

Speaker: Gerardo López


Semantic domains:

  • plants
gyizhily [+]

[ gyizhi’iilly ]

   chair

( Spanish ) silla


Semantic domains:

  • CC L08
guichbled [+]

[ guichble’ed ]

   type of plant (eaten by goats)

( Spanish ) tipo de planta (que comen los chivos)

Speaker: Felipe H. Lopez


Semantic domains:

  • plants
gyilangyia [+]

[ gyilanygyiah ]

   type of plant

( Spanish ) tipo de planta

Speaker: Felipe H. Lopez


Semantic domains:

  • plants
baguidy [+]

[ ba’gui’idy ]

   butterfly, moth

( Spanish ) mariposa, polilla

Speaker: Victoria Lopez


Semantic domains:

  • animal
  • insect
  • CC S-06
mniny [+]

[ mnìi’iny ]

   child

( Spanish ) niño, niña

Speaker: Felipe H. Lopez

Example: Ra mniny bichi re na ra wgya xte Xandan. A wgyac blia larëm fot chi wgyarëm ydo Santa Ana ni na Santa Mony. see more on Twitter


Semantic domains:

  • CC L03
  • CC L05
  • person
xcarzi dad gual [+]

[ xcarzììi’ da’ad guahl ]

   type of plant (a poultice is made from this plant to remove splinters)

( Spanish ) tipo de planta (que se usa para emplaso y extraer astilla)

Speaker: Gerardo López


Semantic domains:

  • plants
te crioi [+]

[ tee cri’oi ]

Speaker: Felipe H. Lopez


Semantic domains:

  • plants
guichuiny [+]

[ guichuihny ]

   type of thorny plant

( Spanish ) especie de planta espinosa

Speaker: Gerardo López


Semantic domains:

  • plants
bag [+]

[ baag ]

   cow

( Spanish ) vaca

Speaker: Felipe H. Lopez


Semantic domains:

  • animal
  • CC L07
gyibtsëzhi [+]

[ gyibtsëhzhii’ ]

   a specific type of organ pipe cactus

( Spanish ) una clase de organo que da tuna

Speaker: Felipe H. Lopez


Semantic domains:

  • plants
gyigyiny xcuch [+]

[ gyìi’gyìi’ny x:cùu’ch ]

   type of pepper

( Spanish ) tipo de chile

Speaker: Felipe H. Lopez


Semantic domains:

  • plants
gyala [+]

[ gyahlàa’ ]

Speaker: Felipe H. Lopez


Semantic domains:

  • plants
guichiu [+]

[ guìi’chiùu ]

   type of thorny tree

( Spanish ) especie de árbol espinoso

Speaker: Felipe H. Lopez


Semantic domains:

  • plants
guezhro [+]

[ gueezhro ]

   large biznaga (was used to make "tortillas" during the famine)

( Spanish ) biznaga grande (se usaba para hacer "tortillas" en tiempo de hambruna)

Speaker: Felipe H. Lopez


Semantic domains:

  • plants
bgyied [+]

[ bgyìed ]

   izote (the flowers are edible)

( Spanish ) izote (se comen las flores)

Speaker: Felipe H. Lopez

budy [+]

[ bu’uhuhdy ]

   chicken, hen

( Spanish ) pollo, gallina

Speaker: Victoria Lopez


Semantic domains:

  • animal
  • bird
lo nya [+]

[ loh nyààa’ ]

   field

( Spanish ) campo

Speaker: Felipe H. Lopez


Semantic domains:

  • agriculture
  • CC L14
  • CC BXTP-2
gya gues siu [+]

[ gya gue’s siu’uh ]

Speaker: Gerardo López


Semantic domains:

  • plants
gyiabdagwe [+]

[ gyiabdahgweh ]

Speaker: Gerardo López


Semantic domains:

  • plants
xtyen becw [+]

[ xtyehn be’cw ]

Speaker: Gerardo López


Semantic domains:

  • plants
zhieb [+]

[ zhi’eb ]

   goat

( Spanish ) chivo

Speaker: Felipe H. Lopez


Semantic domains:

  • animal
  • CC L07
  • CC S-06
bon xqui buarr [+]

Speaker: Felipe H. Lopez

bdi [+]

[ bdih ]

   ant

( Spanish ) hormiga

Speaker: Victoria Lopez


Semantic domains:

  • animal
  • insect
  • CC S-06
laz [+]

[ lààa’z ]

   heart

( Spanish ) corazón

Speaker: Felipe H. Lopez

Example: Rcanyalag laztua, rtyen laztua rata zhi runyu, nyeru maru raqui chi rzeiny tsë schi beu re. via x.com


Semantic domains:

  • body part
gyarziny [+]

[ gyarzihny ]

   a type of bush

( Spanish ) un tipo de arbusto

Speaker: Gerardo López


Semantic domains:

  • plants
gyianuan [+]

[ gyianùan ]

Speaker: Gerardo López


Semantic domains:

  • plants
cwan gyerëb [+]

[ cwàa’n gye’rëb ]

Speaker: Felipe H. Lopez


Semantic domains:

  • plants
biasa [+]

Speaker: Gerardo López

simien xte loguezh quiamni [+]

   the walls of the old Quiavini town

( Spanish ) los paredes del viejo pueblo de Quiavini

Speaker: Felipe H. Lopez

bag [+]

[ baag ]

   cow

( Spanish ) vaca

Speaker: Victoria Lopez


Semantic domains:

  • animal
  • CC L07
  • CC S-06
bel dub [+]

[ bèe’ll dùub ]

   maguey worm

( Spanish ) gusano de maguey

Scientific name: Comadia redtenbacheri

Speaker: Felipe H. Lopez

Example: Beldub. Ryulazu rauëng e? Lainy mescaly, lany zhubguiny, xa ryulazëng? Gusanos de maguey te gustan? see more on Twitter


Semantic domains:

  • animal
  • food
bdag xte gyiaguex [+]

Speaker: Gerardo López

caracol [+]

   snail

( Spanish ) caracol

Scientific name: Cornu via Wikipedia

Speaker: Felipe H. Lopez

Example: Photo by cobao / iNaturalist, License: CC-BY-NC via inaturalist.org


Semantic domains:

  • animal
  • insect
gyia xniaz [+]

Speaker: Gerardo López

nazhëby [+]

   bark scorpion

Scientific name: Centruroides via Wikipedia

Speaker: Felipe H. Lopez

Example: Photo by danieldorantes7 / iNaturalist, License: CC-BY-NC via inaturalist.org


Semantic domains:

  • animal
  • insect
beich [+]

[ be’ich ]

   vulture, buzzard

( Spanish ) zopilote

Speaker: Felipe H. Lopez


Semantic domains:

  • animal
  • bird
  • CC S-06
  • CC L24
gyitsiny [+]

[ gyi’tsihny ]

   bat

( Spanish ) murcielego

Speaker: Felipe H. Lopez


Semantic domains:

  • animal
chon [+]

[ chòonn ]

   three

( Spanish ) tres

Speaker: Victoria Lopez


Semantic domains:

  • number
  • CC L08
  • CC S-05
gyibtsëri [+]

[ gyibtsëhri’ih ]

Speaker: Gerardo López


Semantic domains:

  • plants
gyabdua [+]

[ gyabdùa’ ]

Speaker: Gerardo López


Semantic domains:

  • plants
Quia Bdan [+]

   Picacho (name of the mountain)

( Spanish ) Picacho (nombre de la montaña)

Speaker: Gerardo López


Semantic domains:

  • location
dubia [+]

Speaker: Gerardo López


Semantic domains:

  • plants
rran [+]

[ rraan ]

   frog

( Spanish ) rana

Speaker: Felipe H. Lopez


Semantic domains:

  • animal
  • CC S-06
  • CC L14
  • CC S-01
  • CC L02
gyaluzh [+]

[ gyalùuzh ]

   type of pepper tree (Notes: 1. the tender branches are used to both cure and protect one from "susto"; 2. the peppercorns can be burned in the fire to help overdue baby chicks hatch)

( Spanish ) tipo de pirul (Notas: 1. sus ramas tiernas sirven para curar y proteger a uno del susto; 2. cuando los pollitos no nacen el día esperado, se ponen las semillas en el fuego a lado de los huevos y así cuando truenen las semillas, los pollitos nacen)

Speaker: Gerardo López


Semantic domains:

  • plants
dub cux [+]

[ dùub cu’ux ]

   type of maguey

( Spanish ) maguey espadín


Semantic domains:

  • plants
gueb simarrony [+]

[ guèe’b simaroony ]

   type of acahual

( Spanish ) tipo de acahual

Speaker: Gerardo López


Semantic domains:

  • plants
gyibia muan [+]

[ gyibyàa mu’an ]

   prickly pear cactus

( Spanish ) nopal

Speaker: Felipe H. Lopez


Semantic domains:

  • plants
gyagyex crioi [+]

[ gyagye’ehx cri’oi ]

Speaker: Gerardo López


Semantic domains:

  • plants
dubblia [+]

[ dùub blììa’ ]

   tobalá maguey (a wild maguey used to make mezcal)

( Spanish ) maguey tobalá (maguey silvestre que se usa para hacer mezcal)

Speaker: Felipe H. Lopez


Semantic domains:

  • plants
dam [+]

[ da’amm ]

   owl

( Spanish ) búho, tecolote

Speaker: Victoria Lopez


Semantic domains:

  • bird
  • animal
  • CC S-06
gyiarziny [+]

[ gyìa’rzihny ]

   type of plant (used for fuel for making bricks)

( Spanish ) una clase de planta (se usa para combustibles para hacer ladrillos)

Speaker: Felipe H. Lopez


Semantic domains:

  • plants
cwan bady [+]

[ cwàa’n ba’ady ]

   type of plant

( Spanish ) tipo de planta

Speaker: Gerardo López


Semantic domains:

  • plants
gyigwats [+]

[ gyigwa’ts ]

Speaker: Gerardo López


Semantic domains:

  • plants
becw [+]

[ bèe’cw ]

   dog

( Spanish ) perro

Speaker: Victoria Lopez


Semantic domains:

  • CC L03
  • CC L05
  • animal
gyixtily [+]

[ gyix:tiilly ]

Speaker: Gerardo López


Semantic domains:

  • plants
dub saryely [+]

[ dùub saryeelly ]

( Spanish ) tipo de maguey sarial

Speaker: Gerardo López


Semantic domains:

  • plants
biagyety [+]

Speaker: Gerardo López

gyiluzhdany [+]

[ gyi’lùu’zh dàany ]

   type of tree related to pepper tree (it is said that if you get a rash from touching this tree, then in order to get rid of the rash you must dance around the tree and hit the tree with a stick)

( Spanish ) tipo de pirul (se dice que si tocas este árbol, te dara ronchas, para curarte tienes que bailar a su rededor y pegarle con una vara)

Speaker: Felipe H. Lopez


Semantic domains:

  • plants
tyop [+]

[ tyo’p ]

   two

( Spanish ) dos

Speaker: Felipe H. Lopez


Semantic domains:

  • CC L03
  • number
  • CC L08
  • CC S-05
mansan [+]

[ mannsaan ]

   apple

( Spanish ) manzana

Speaker: Felipe H. Lopez


Semantic domains:

  • CC L03
  • CC L06
  • food
  • CC S-13
beu [+]

[ be’euh ]

   turtle

( Spanish ) tortuga

Speaker: Felipe H. Lopez


Semantic domains:

  • animal
  • CC S-06
gyabo [+]

[ gyabòo ]

   encino oak (used to make coal)

( Spanish ) encino (se usa para hacer carbón)

Speaker: Felipe H. Lopez


Semantic domains:

  • plants
xop [+]

[ x:òp ]

   six

( Spanish ) seis

Speaker: Victoria Lopez


Semantic domains:

  • number
  • CC L08
  • CC S-05
guichëm [+]

[ guichyë’mm ]

Speaker: Gerardo López


Semantic domains:

  • plants
wrraly gyixtily [+]

[ wrra’ahlly gyix:tiilly ]

Speaker: Gerardo López


Semantic domains:

  • plants
gugyixtily [+]

[ guhgyix:tiilly ]

   carriso root

( Spanish ) raiz de carriso

Speaker: Gerardo López


Semantic domains:

  • plants
gyalazhu [+]

[ gyalàa’zh:ùu ]

Speaker: Gerardo López


Semantic domains:

  • plants
gyigyerëb [+]

[ gyigy’eèrëb ]

   type of plant

( Spanish ) tipo de planta

Speaker: Felipe H. Lopez


Semantic domains:

  • plants
budy [+]

[ bu’uhuhdy ]

   chicken

( Spanish ) pollo, gallina, gallo

Speaker: Felipe H. Lopez


Semantic domains:

  • CC L03
  • CC L07
  • animal
  • CC S-06
teiby [+]

[ te’ihby ]

   one

( Spanish ) uno

Speaker: Victoria Lopez


Semantic domains:

  • number
  • CC L03
  • CC L06
  • CC S-05
wbequi [+]

   type of plant (used to make smaller brooms, typically used by women)

( Spanish ) tipo de planta (que se usa para hacer escobas pequeñas usualmente para el uso de la mujer)

Speaker: Felipe H. Lopez


Semantic domains:

  • plants
manyser [+]

[ ma’anyseer ]

   bee

( Spanish ) abeja

Speaker: Felipe H. Lopez


Semantic domains:

  • CC L05
  • animal
  • insect
  • CC S-06
gyiabo [+]

[ gyiabòo ]

   type of tree (used to make coal)

( Spanish ) un tipo de árbol (para hacer carbón)

Speaker: Felipe H. Lopez


Semantic domains:

  • plants
budy gai [+]

[ bu’uhdy ga’i ]

   rooster

( Spanish ) gallo

Speaker: Felipe H. Lopez


Semantic domains:

  • animal
  • bird
tsëiny [+]

[ tsêë'iny ]

   thirteen

( Spanish ) trece

Speaker: Felipe H. Lopez

Example: Zicyre rca tsëiny chicy Nanad e? zieny ra gyetsdo laty ca xtizhadoën nu lainy ra archieb Ldua Mejy & Europ zicy na Spany & Fransy. see more on Twitter


Semantic domains:

  • number
  • CC S-05
gyabtuch [+]

[ gyabtu’ch ]

Speaker: Gerardo López


Semantic domains:

  • plants
gyabaza [+]

[ gyabazàa ]

   olalliberry tree

( Spanish ) árbol de zarzamora

Speaker: Felipe H. Lopez


Semantic domains:

  • plants
gyigwuats [+]

[ gyigwùa’ts ]

   agave shoot

( Spanish ) quiote

Speaker: Felipe H. Lopez


Semantic domains:

  • plants
cwan [+]

[ cwàa’n ]

   alfalfa

( Spanish ) alfalfa

Speaker: Felipe H. Lopez


Semantic domains:

  • plants
bel [+]

[ behll ]

   fish

( Spanish ) pez

Speaker: Felipe H. Lopez


Semantic domains:

  • food
  • animal
  • CC L01
  • CC L05
  • CC S-06
deiby [+]

   feather

( Spanish ) pluma (de ave)

Speaker: Felipe H. Lopez

wbwegyad [+]

[ wbwèe’ gyàa’d ]

Speaker: Gerardo López


Semantic domains:

  • plants
luzhguan [+]

[ lùuzhgùu’ann ]

   type of plant

( Spanish ) tipo de planta ("lengua de toro")

Speaker: Felipe H. Lopez


Semantic domains:

  • plants
gyizha morad [+]

[ gyihzhya’ moraad ]

Speaker: Felipe H. Lopez


Semantic domains:

  • plants
rdo [+]

[ rdòo’oh ]

   1. get sold, sell (is sold) 2. get sold by, be sold by (a unit of measure)

( Spanish ) 1. venderse 2. venderse por (una unidad de medida)

Speaker: Felipe H. Lopez

Example: Lainy gyia Bac laty rdo bel. Rsilyru ni, ady salodi yzeiny buny! see more on Twitter


Semantic domains:

  • CC L15
tseinyabtap [+]

[ tsèin’ny ahbta’p ]

   nineteen

( Spanish ) diecinueve

Speaker: Felipe H. Lopez


Semantic domains:

  • number
  • CC S-05
gual tia [+]

   white winged dove

( Spanish ) paloma alas blancas, paloma aliblanca

Scientific name: Zenaida asiatica

Speaker: Geraldina Lopez Curiel

Example: Foto de Jorge A. Pérez Torres, algunos derechos reservados (CC BY-NC). via naturalista.mx

gwag [+]

[ gwahg ]

   rat

( Spanish ) rata

Speaker: Felipe H. Lopez


Semantic domains:

  • animal
bdi [+]

[ bdih ]

   ant

( Spanish ) hormiga

Speaker: Felipe H. Lopez


Semantic domains:

  • animal
  • insect
  • CC S-06
conzh [+]

   shell

Speaker: Felipe H. Lopez


Semantic domains:

  • animal
gyateu [+]

[ gyate’uh ]

   type of shrub

( Spanish ) tipo de arbusto

Speaker: Gerardo López


Semantic domains:

  • plants
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All content copyright © the recorded Zapotec communities (2013-2019)
Dictionary produced by Brook Lillehaugen, with support from K. David Harrison and Jeremy Fahringer.
Supported in part with funding from a NSF REU Site grant (PI Harrison, Building Digital Tools to Support Endangered Languages and Preserve Environmental Knowledge in Mexico, Micronesia, and Navajo Nation, Award #1461056). Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.


Most of the black and white line drawings in these entries are taken from the Arte para la Alfabetización en México (Art for Literacy in Mexico) (Instituto Lingüistico de Verano, A.C., 2004) and are used according to the license agreement therein. All artwork remains the intellectual property of the artist.

All rights reserved. Do not distribute or reproduce without permission.
how to cite: Lillehaugen, Brook Danielle, Felipe H. Lopez, Pamela Munro, with Savita M. Deo, Graham Mauro, and Saul Ontiveros. 2019. San Lucas Quiaviní Zapotec Talking Dictionary, version 2.0. Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages. http://www.talkingdictionary.org/sanlucasquiavini

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There are currently 2295 entries, 1850 audio files, and 185 images.

All content copyright © the recorded Zapotec communities (2013-2019)
Dictionary produced by Brook Lillehaugen, with support from K. David Harrison and Jeremy Fahringer.
Supported in part with funding from a NSF REU Site grant (PI Harrison, Building Digital Tools to Support Endangered Languages and Preserve Environmental Knowledge in Mexico, Micronesia, and Navajo Nation, Award #1461056). Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.


Most of the black and white line drawings in these entries are taken from the Arte para la Alfabetización en México (Art for Literacy in Mexico) (Instituto Lingüistico de Verano, A.C., 2004) and are used according to the license agreement therein. All artwork remains the intellectual property of the artist.

All rights reserved. Do not distribute or reproduce without permission.
how to cite: Lillehaugen, Brook Danielle, Felipe H. Lopez, Pamela Munro, with Savita M. Deo, Graham Mauro, and Saul Ontiveros. 2019. San Lucas Quiaviní Zapotec Talking Dictionary, version 2.0. Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages. http://www.talkingdictionary.org/sanlucasquiavini

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