cuto

Signification (English)

  1. (El-Salvador,colloquial) missing an arm or forearm from birth, or from disease or an accident
  2. (El-Salvador,colloquial,dated) short (said of clothes, especially pants)

Concepts

Coupé comme
cu‧to
Prononcé comme (IPA)
/ˈkuto/
Étymologie (English)

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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