Otomin.adj.

1782 J. Scott Poet. Wks. 255 (note) The Otomies were a fierce, savage nation, never thoroughly subdued by the Mexicans.

1787 C. Cullen tr. F. S. Clavigero Hist. Mexico I. ii. 105 The Mazahuas were once a part of the nation of the Otomies, as the languages of both nations are but different dialects of the same tongue.

1834 R. M. Bird Calavar II. xxv. 195 Among the Otomies of the hills, have I won me the tassels of renown.

1877 L. H. Morgan Anc. Society ii. vii. 194 The confederacy was confronted by hostile..tribes..the Mechoacans on the west, the Otomies on the northwest.

1961 W. Brandon Indians 44/1 A horde of foreigners streamed down from the north into the Valley of Mexico, possibly Toltecs allied with the Otomi.

1992 R. Wright Stolen Continents (1993) xi. 248 The Revolution was about many things, but Mexico's Indians—Nahua, Zapotec, Otomí, and the rest—fought to regain lands lost to the Spaniards and the creole landlords.

1845 Trans. Amer. Ethnol. Soc. 1 4 A comparison of near three hundred words of the Mexican, Otomi, and Huasteca, exhibits but very few, and perhaps accidental, coincidences.

1891 D. G. Brinton Amer. Race 338 The Otomi presents so many sounds unfamiliar to the European ear that the attempt to represent it by our alphabets can be only remotely accurate.

1908 F. Starr In Indian Mexico xx. 245 In Tlaxco, a small village in this municipio, four idioms are spoken—Aztec, Otomi, Totonac and Tepehua.

1964 Language 40 81 A great variety of person-tense-aspect prefixes are available to the speaker of Otomi.

2002 Encycl. Brit. Online 2 Oct. at Otomí The Otomí peoples speak at least four closely related languages, all called Otomí.

1843 W. H. Prescott Hist. Conquest Mexico I. iii. iii. 439 The rear of the mighty host was dark with the shadows of banners, on which were emblazoned the armorial bearings of the great Tlascalan and Otomie chieftains.

1883 Encycl. Brit. XVI. 207/1 The languages of the Nahua nations..show no connexion of origin with the language of the Otomi tribes.

1931 K. A. Porter Let. 11 Feb. (1990) i. 31 Mary's [servant] woman is a Totonac, and mine is Otomi, and these two tribes never did like each other.

1948 D. Diringer Alphabet vii. 124 They [sc. Chichimeca]..are considered by some experts as of Otomi origin.

1972 Language 48 847 Otomi nasal vowels, Mixteco,..and Zoque.