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"Coyote" is one example of an English word that has an Indigenous origin. 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. "Iguana" also has an Indigenous origin and entered English through Spanish. But in this case, the original source was Taino, a language of the Caribbean islands, in which the word for the group of related lizard species is iwana.