"Juyéndole"
I can't find this word anywhere! (And I'm not entirely sure what its infinitive is either.) In context: "¿Qué les ha hecho Pancho Villa a los concheños para que anden juyéndole?" (Nellie Campobello, Cartucho)
"Concheños", I believe, refers to men from Concheño, in the Mexican state of Chihuahua.
But "juyendo"? Anyone know?
2 Answers
It is probably huir misspelled.
huyendo is the gerund.
huyéndole with the pronoun attached.
Since the "h" is silent someone was trying to match the spelling with the pronunciation.
Q's answer is apt, except that I wouldn't call it exactly "misspelled". I mean, technically it is, of course. However, it really is a way to write the word the way people sometimes, someplaces, pronounce the word.
That substitution of the silent "h" of the harder "j" sound (essentially the same way "h" would normally be pronounced in English) is common enough in much of Latin America, particularly among the folk with lesser schooling.
There are also words that are common enough that can be spelled either way, such as "halar" vs. "jalar" - both are correct.
