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"Coyote" is an example of a loanword—that is, a word that originated in one language and was later adopted by another. The word came to English indirectly from coyote, the Spanish word for the wild canine species. Spanish had borrowed it from Nahuatl, an Indigenous language of Central Mexico, in which the word's original form is coyotl. "Condor" is also Indigenous in origin and entered English through Spanish. But in this case, the original source was Quechua, a language of South America, in which the word for the large vulture species is kuntur.