ahuatl
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Central Nahuatl edit
Noun edit
ahuatl (inanimate)
- oak tree.
Classical Nahuatl edit
Etymology 1 edit
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
āhuatl (inanimate)
- oak tree
- 1555, Alonso de Molina, Aqui comienca vn vocabulario en la lengua castellana y mexicana, f. 109r:
- Enzina. auaquauitl.auatl.
- An oak tree. auaquauitl. auatl.
- Idem, f. 216v.
- Roble arbol. auaquauitl. auatl.
- An oak tree. auaquauitl. auatl.
- Roble arbol. auaquauitl. auatl.
- 1571, Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, f. 57v. col. 1:
- Enzina. auaquauitl. auatl.
- An oak tree. auaquauitl. auatl.
- Idem, f. 105r. col. 2.
- Roble arbol. auaquauitl. auatl.
- An oak tree. auaquauitl. auatl.
- Roble arbol. auaquauitl. auatl.
- Idem, f. 9r. col. 2.
- Auatl. enzina,roble, guſano lanudo. o eſpina.
- Auatl. an oak tree, a woolly worm, or a thorn.
- Auatl. enzina,roble, guſano lanudo. o eſpina.
Derived terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
āhuātl (animate)
- A woolly kind of caterpillar.
- 1571, Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, f. 9r. col. 2:
- Auatl. enzina,roble, guſano lanudo. o eſpina.
- Auatl. an oak tree, a woolly worm, or a thorn.
- 1645, Horacio Carochi, Arte de la lengua mexicana con la declaración de los adverbios della:
- āhuātl, ambas largas, gusano lanudo de arbol.
- āhuātl, with both vowels long, a woolly tree worm.
Synonyms edit
Etymology 3 edit
Noun edit
ahuatl (inanimate)
References edit
- Carochi, Horacio (2001) James Lockhart, transl., Grammar of the Mexican Language, with an Explanation of its Adverbs (1645), Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, pages 466–467
- Karttunen, Frances (1983) An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl, Austin: University of Texas Press, page 8