totopochtic
Classical Nahuatl edit
Etymology edit
From totopotza (“to toast, make crunchy”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
totopochtic
- Something toasted or crunchy.
- 1571, Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, f. 151r. col. 1:
- Totopochtic. coſa muy toſtada,aſsi como pan,tortillas de mayz. &c.
(Totopochtic. something very toasted, such as bread, maize tortillas, etc.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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Descendants edit
References edit
- Frances Karttunen (1992) An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl, University of Oklahoma Press, page 249