Word Origin Summary

Cuchillo is attested in Spanish. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Ancestry Chain

1. cultellusLatininherited from
2. cuchielloOld Spanishinherited from

Descendants and Related Terms

• cochiyó

  San Juan Atzingo Popoloca · borrowed from

• cochi̱loj

  Isthmus-Mecayapan Nahuatl · borrowed from

• kotsilyo

  Sambali · borrowed from

• kutsilyo

  Tagalog · borrowed from

• cuchīluj

  Highland Totonac · borrowed from

• cwšiyw

  Zoogocho Zapotec · borrowed from

• cuchi̱nu

  Oluta Popoluca · borrowed from

• kutsilyo

  Bikol Central · borrowed from

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