talaje

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish talaje, from a Nahuan language; cf. Classical Nahuatl tlālāxin, from tlālli (“earth”) +‎ āxin.

Noun

talaje (plural talajes)

1. a kind of tick (Ornithodoros talaje)

Translations

Translations

• Cuicatec:

  Tepeuxila: ꞌi⁴cui³

• Kaqchikel: chut
• Mixe:

  Totontepec: piꞌc mootsc xiijy

• Nahuatl:

  Classical: tlālāxin

  Highland Puebla: ta̱la̱xi̱n

  Northern Puebla: tlalaxtli

  Tetelcingo: tlölöxa

• Popoloca:

  San Juan Atzingo: cotsꞌe

• Popoluca:

  Oluta: na̱s̈-u̱ji

  Sayula: na̱s̈nanc

• Spanish: talaje
• Totonac:

  Xicotepec de Juárez: chinche

• Zapotec:

  Isthmus: bidi

  Yatzachi: biꞌoyo

• Zoque:

  Copainalá: endzi

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /taˈlaxe/ [t̪aˈla.xe]
• Rhymes: -axe
• Syllabification: ta‧la‧je

Etymology 1

From talar (“fell (trees)”) +‎ -aje (“-age”).

Noun

talaje m (plural talajes)

1. (Chile) grazing
2. (Chile) fee paid for the right to graze on another's land

Etymology 2

Borrowed from a Nahuan language; cf. Classical Nahuatl tlālāxin, from tlālli (“earth”) +‎ āxin.

Alternative forms

• tlalaje, clalaje

Noun

talaje m (plural talajes)

1. talaje (parasite)

References

• Schoenhals, Louise C. (1988) A Spanish - English Glossary of Mexican Flora and Fauna‎^[1], Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 228

Further reading

• “talaje”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28