xalxocotl

Classical Nahuatl

FWOTD – 5 April 2020

Etymology

Equivalent to xālli (“sand”) +‎ xocotl (“fruit”). Cf. Central Nahuatl chalxocotl, Central Huasteca Nahuatl chalchokotl, Mecayapan Nahuatl xa̱lxocoꞌ, Northern Puebla Nahuatl xalxocotl, Michoacán Nahuatl xalxocul, Tetelcingo Nahuatl xoxocotl, Zacatlán-Ahuacatlán-Tepetzintla Nahuatl xalxocotl.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃaːlˈʃokot͜ɬ/

Noun

xālxocotl

1. guava (fruit, Psidium guajava)
   • c. 1569, Bernardino de Sahagún, editor, Historia general de las cosas de Nueva España, volume 11, page 122v:

     ¶ Xalxocotl, xalxocoquavitl: qujllo caiaztic, qujllo caiaoac ixtlatlaccamjltic injnacaio, cocopeoa injquauhio: injtlaaqujllo iztaleoac, coziaiactic, texio, tetexio, xallo:

     Guava; guava tree. It is covered in sparse foliage; its wood is red-brown; it sheds its branches; its fruit is pale, dark yellow, fine-grained, sandy

   • [1651, Francisco Hernández, Rerum medicarum Novae Hispaniae thesaurus, seu plantarum animalium mineralium Mexicanorum historia (in Latin), Romae: Ex typographeio Vitalis Mascardi:

     XALXOCOTL arbor eſt magna, Guayabus ab Haitinis dicta

     The xalxocotl is a large tree, called guayabus by the Haitians]

Holonyms

• xalxococuahuitl (“guava tree”)

Derived terms

• xālxococuahuitl

Northern Puebla Nahuatl

Etymology

Cf. Classical Nahuatl xālxocotl.

Noun

xalxocotl

1. guava (fruit, Psidium guajava)

References

• Brockway, Earl, Hershey de Brockway, Trudy, Santos Valdés, Leodegario (2018) Diccionario náhuatl del norte del estado de Puebla (Series de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas "Mariano Silva y Aceves"; 42)‎^[1] (in Spanish), segunda ILV edición (versión electrónica) edition, Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 242

Zacatlán-Ahuacatlán-Tepetzintla Nahuatl

Etymology

Cf. Classical Nahuatl xālxocotl.

Noun

xalxocotl

1. guava (fruit, Psidium guajava)

References

• Brockway B., Raúl, Cosme, Herminio, Hernández, Juan (1984) Frases en mejicano y español: En el idioma náhuatl de San Miguel de Tenango, Puebla y en español‎^[2] (in Spanish), México, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 10