Do you pronounce it as Kai-O-Tee or Kai-Oat...personally I use the second one. Very nearly corrected my teacher about it too in high school.
2006-08-30 06:42:24 · 18 answers · asked by RuneWitchSakura1988 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
I suppose I should add that I know both are 'correct', I just want to know how everyone else pronounces it. I pronounced it Kai-O-Tee until I took a trip to Canada a few summers ago and my Grandma (who now lives in South Dakota) got the Kai-Oat pronounciation stuck in my head.
2006-08-30 06:59:23 · update #1
kahy-oh-tee
2006-08-30 06:44:43 · answer #1 · answered by lol 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
It's like opossum. People who live in the country and actually deal with these two animals on a day-to-day basis say possum and kay-oht. City people who only see them in books call them oh-possum and coyo-tee. The Aztec word that is the source for coyote is koyotl, with NO -tee on the end.
2006-08-30 07:24:32 · answer #2 · answered by Taivo 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Kai-yo-tee
2016-03-14 00:01:18 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
coy-o-te Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[kahy-oh-tee, kahy-oht] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–noun, plural -tes, (especially collectively) -te.
1. Also called prairie wolf. a buffy-gray, wolflike canid, Canis latrans, of North America, distinguished from the wolf by its relatively small size and its slender build, large ears, and narrow muzzle.
2. Slang. a contemptible person, esp. an avaricious or dishonest one.
3. American Indian Legend. the coyote regarded as a culture hero and trickster by American Indian tribes of the West.
4. Slang. a person who smuggles Mexican nationals across the border into the U.S. for a fee.
[Origin: Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.0.1)
Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2006.
2006-08-30 06:56:48 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
You can pronounce it coyote either way. Both ways are correct.
2006-08-30 06:46:27 · answer #5 · answered by disabled_59 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋
It is Kai-O-Tee like you said. Coyote is singular, and coyotes the plural. It is not Kai-Oat as the sound of coyote has three syllables thus, coy-o-te.
2006-09-07 01:24:26 · answer #6 · answered by VelvetRose 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
my uncle in oklahoma would get violently mad if he heard anyone say kay o tee. All of his friends were Native Americans and he said that they said that the other way was just another way of whitening their culture. I have been conditioned to correct people and get upset whenever anyone says it that first way. Nobody understands me, but somewhere up in the clouds I hope my uncle is proud of me. Kai-oat forever!!
2006-08-30 06:52:37 · answer #7 · answered by sssnole 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Either pronunciation is acceptable. If you want to be a stickler for the correct pronunciation, you might go back to the Indian or Spanish pronunciation:
kai-o-ta
or
kai-o-tl
2006-08-30 06:48:52 · answer #8 · answered by ThatLady 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
1st.
Both are considered correct, but I believe the origins are closer to the 1st one (spanish and native am).
I've always seen #2 as the rural version.
2006-08-30 06:47:16 · answer #9 · answered by Phoenix, Wise Guru 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Ki (sounds like Hi)
oh
tee
2006-08-30 06:47:48 · answer #10 · answered by Why_Am_I_Here 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
"Kai-oh-tee," I think, would be the preferred pronunciation. But, the western American would likely pronounce it as "Kai-Oat." Either would be acceptable.
2006-09-06 08:24:51 · answer #11 · answered by Scott K 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋