Otomi

plural Otomis · alternative obsolete Otomies · alternative obsolete Ottomies

1. A person belonging to the indigenous Otomi ethnic group of central Mexico.

   the eſpies of Tlaxcallan ſayde, that none had fought with them but certayne outlawes and knaues called Otomies, who lyued as vagaboundes without a Lorde or other ruler

   1578, Thomas Nicholas, The Pleasant Historie of the Conquest of the VVeast India, London: Henry Bynneman, translation of Historia general de las Indias by Francisco López de Gómara, page 124

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   Thoſe in New Spaine, which they call Ottomies, were of this ſort, beeing commonly poore Indians, inhabiting a rough and barren Land, and yet they are in good numbers, and liue together with ſome order, and ſuch as doe know them, find them no leſſe apt and capeable of matters of Chriſtian Religion, then others which are held to be more rich and better gouerned.

   1625, Samuel Purchas, Purchas His Pilgrimes, volume 3, London: William Stansby, page 1001

alternative obsolete Otomies · alternative obsolete Ottomies

1. An Oto-Manguean language and one of the indigenous languages of Mexico, spoken by around 240,000 indigenous Otomi people in the central altiplano region of Mexico.