centzontle

The story

1. Classical Nahuatl · derived fromcentzontleh
2. Spanish · borrowed fromcenzontle
3. English todaycentzontle

Borrowed from Spanish cenzontle, from Classical Nahuatl centzontleh, shortened form of centzontlahtōleh (“mockingbird”, literally “possessor of four hundred words”), from centzontli (“four hundred, a count of four hundred”) + tlahtōlli (“language, word, statement”) + -eh (“possessor of”).