chachauatl

Classical Nahuatl

Alternative forms

• chachahuatl

Noun

chachauatl

1. Merriam's pocket gopher (Cratogeomys merriami).
   • 1555, Alonso de Molina, Aqui comienca un vocabulario en la lengua castellana y mexicana, f. 156v:

     Liron animal. xaltoçan.uiçacotl.chachauatl.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 16C: Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex, book 11, chapter 1, paragraph 7

     CHACHAOATL: camaxiqujpile, anoço camaxixiquj: iuhqujn toçan, tomavac, cujtlatomactontli [...]

     (POCKET GOPHER: It is the cheek-bagged one; or the cheek-bags. Like the gopher, it is thick, with small, thick back. [etc.])

References

• Sahagún, Bernardino de (1963) Charles E. Dibble, Arthur J. O. Anderson, transl., Florentine Codex, Book 11 - Earthly Things, Salt Lake City: The University of Utah Press, page 18