cuachpamitl
Classical Nahuatl edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From cuāchtli (“large cotton sheet”) + pāmitl (“banner, row”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
cuāchpāmitl
- standard, banner, flag
- 1555, Alonso de Molina, Aqui comienca vn vocabulario en la lengua castellana y mexicana, f. 118r:
- Eſtandarte. quachpantli.quachpanitl.quachpamitl.
(Banner. quachpantli.quachpanitl.quachpamitl.)- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 1571, Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, f. 84r. col. 1:
- Quachpamitl. eſtandarte, vandera,o pendon.
(Quachpamitl. standard, flag or pennant.)- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
References edit
- Frances Karttunen (1992) An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl, University of Oklahoma Press, page 56