cuto

(Englisch)

  1. (El-Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, colloquial) missing an arm or forearm; one-armed, or one-forearmed
  2. (El-Salvador, colloquial) short

Mit Bindestrich als
cu‧to
Ausgesprochen als (IPA)
/ˈkuto/
Etymologie (Englisch)

In summary

Borrowed from Pipil kutu (“short, dismembered”) cf. Pipil mākutu (“one-armed, with an arm missing”), related to Classical Nahuatl cotoctic (“dismembered”), macotoctic (“dismembered of one arm”), quechcotoctic (“decapitated”). The DRAE states it is borrowed from a Nahuatl cutuche (“cut”), but this is perhaps a spurious Nahuatl word, not found in Lyle Campbell's Pipil Nawat lexicon.

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