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The word ''teosinte'' (first attested in English 1877, in Spanish 1790[[Haugen, Jason D. 2009. Borrowed borrowings: Nahuatl loan words in English. Lexis: Journal in English Lexicology, (3).|Haugen 2009]], but first as teocintli in 1590) comes from Nahuatl. Eastern Nahuatl has ''teo:sintli'', Western Nahuatl ''teo:sentli'', derived from ''[[teo:]]-'' "deity, divine, of the sun" and ''[[sin]]-/[[sen]]''- "maize". | The word '''teosinte''' (''Zea perennis'', first attested in English 1877, in Spanish 1790[[Haugen, Jason D. 2009. Borrowed borrowings: Nahuatl loan words in English. Lexis: Journal in English Lexicology, (3).|Haugen 2009]], but first as teocintli in 1590) comes from Nahuatl. Eastern Nahuatl has ''teo:sintli'', Western Nahuatl ''teo:sentli'', derived from ''[[teo:]]-'' "deity, divine, of the sun" and ''[[sin]]-/[[sen]]''- "maize". | ||
* Nahuatl ''teo:''- may come from proto-Corachol-Nahua ''tɨ-yaw'' "our father" used in reference to the sun. | * Nahuatl ''teo:''- may come from proto-Corachol-Nahua ''tɨ-yaw'' "our father" used in reference to the sun. | ||
* Nahuatl ''sin''/''sen'' "maize" comes from PCN *[[sɨnɨ]] from PSUA *[[sunu]] "maize". | * Nahuatl ''sin''/''sen'' "maize" comes from PCN *[[sɨnɨ]] from PSUA *[[sunu]] "maize". | ||
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The word teosinte (Zea perennis, first attested in English 1877, in Spanish 1790Haugen 2009, but first as teocintli in 1590) comes from Nahuatl. Eastern Nahuatl has teo:sintli, Western Nahuatl teo:sentli, derived from teo:- "deity, divine, of the sun" and sin-/sen- "maize".