Otomi

[ oh-tuh-mee ]

/ ˌoʊ təˈmi /

a member of an American Indian people of south-central Mexico.

the Oto-Manguean language of the Otomi.

Origin of Otomi

1780–90; < Mexican Spanish otomí < Nahuatl otomih, plural of otomitl; literal meaning unknown

More has been written on the Otomi than any other language of these parts; the proper Mexican not excepted.

Opuscula |Robert Gordon Latham
For further criticism see the remarks on the Otomi language.

The Natural History of the Varieties of Man |Robert Gordon Latham
The following table, the result of a very limited collation gives some miscellaneous affinities for the Otomi.

Opuscula |Robert Gordon Latham
Two years before, just as my work was ending, we were in the great Otomi town of Huixquilucan, in the state of Mexico.

In Indian Mexico (1908) |Frederick Starr

A great complication in the philological ethnography, is introduced by the Otomi dialects.

The Natural History of the Varieties of Man |Robert Gordon Latham