xochimicqui
Classical Nahuatl
editEtymology
editFrom xōchitl (“flower”) + micqui (“one that has died”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editxōchimicqui (animate, plural xōchimicqueh)
- a sacrificial victim, especially a prisoner of war offered in sacrifice
- 1571, Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, f. 160r. col. 2:
- Xochimicque. captiuos enguerra, los quales eran / ſacrficados y muertos, delante de los idolos.
- Xochimicque. those captured in war; which were [later] sacrificed and killed before the idols.
References
edit- Alonso de Molina (2008) Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana (1571), Editorial Porrúa, page 160