Today I took an IDNR workshop called "Coyote Track" and, as part of that workshop, learned that < coyote > comes from the Aztec word coyotl. Once again, I hopped onto etymonline... this time to see what other words in our language come from, or are connected to, Nahuatl (Aztecan):
If you gave a group of children these words to research, they would quickly see that the Spanish first encountered the Aztecs (and that they did not like the original < tl > ending spelling of words like coyotl, ocelotl, and tomatl).
For more words in Nahuatl, read the Aztec legend
The Princess and the Warrior: A Tale of Two Volcanoes
retold by Duncan Tonatiuh
If you're teaching about the Aztec empire during the Age of Exploration, I also highly recommend:
The Sad Night: The Story of an Aztec Victory and a Spanish Loss
by Sally Schofer Mathews
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