Animals, plants & weather

ocelot

Nahuatl ocēlōtl meant the jaguar; Mexican Spanish kept ocelote, but the French naturalist Buffon took the word for the smaller spotted cat, and English, German and Russian followed him.

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The road to English

From Classical Nahuatl to Mexican Spanish

From French to German

From French to Russian

From French to Polish

From English to Japanese

1520Classical Nahuatl

Hops are evenly spaced; labels show the year each form is first attested.

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