cuy

cuy

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Cuitlatec.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Cuitlatec terms

Borrowed from Peruvian Spanish cuy (“guinea pig”) (ultimately from Quechua quwi (“guinea pig”)).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkui/

cuy (uncountable)

1. guinea pig meat

cuy

1. stick
2. tree
3. wood

• Elson, Benjamin F., Gutiérrez G., Donaciano (1999) Diccionario popoluca de la Sierra, Veracruz (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 41)‎^[1] (in Spanish), Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., →ISBN, page 21

• cui
• cuyo (El Salvador)

Borrowed from Quechua quwi.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkui/ [ˈkui̯]

• Audio (Peru):

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• Rhymes: -ui
• Syllabification: cuy

cuy m (plural cuyes)

1. (Andes) guinea pig

   Synonym: conejillo de Indias

2. guinea pig meat (eaten especially in the Andes; see the Wikipedia article)

• “cuy”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024