Definition/Meaning of saltillo

• English - Noun: saltillo ( plural saltillos ) In Mexican languages , especially Nahuatl , a glottal stop or fricative sound . An apostrophe used to represent this sound .
• English - Quotations: 1915: Nahuatl ’ (saltillo) can be clearly shown to be developed in certain cases from syllabically final -t or -k, ... —Southern Paiute and Nahuatl - A Study in Utoaztekan, Part II , Edward Sapir, American Anthropologist , New Series , Vol . 17 , No . 2 (Apr.-Jun., 1915) 1937: In Aztec the second ultra-short vowel is syncopated , leaving however the glottal consonant or “saltillo,” ...…
• Spanish - Noun: saltillo  m ( plural saltillos ) saltillo .
• English - Etymology: From Spanish saltillo
• Spanish - Etymology: "Little jump", diminutive of salto ( “ a jump ” ), from Latin saltus , from saliō ( “ to jump ” ), from Proto-Indo-European *sal-yo- . Related to English sally .