chichicatl

Central Nahuatl

Noun

chichicatl

1. bile,
2. spittle, saliva.

Classical Nahuatl

Etymology

From chichic "bitter".

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʃitʃikatɬ/

Noun

chichicatl

1. Bile.
   • 1555, Alonso de Molina, Aqui comienca un vocabulario en la lengua castellana y mexicana, f. 139v:

     Hiel. chichicatl.techichicauh.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. Gall bladder.
3. Descendant.
4. Ancestor.
   • c. 1609: Tezozomoc, Chimalpahin, Cronica mexicayotl, f. 18r.

     yn huehuetque yllamatque. catca yn tocihuan tocolhuan yn tachtõhuan yn tomintonhuan yn topiptonhuã yn tochichicahuan
     (those who were the ancient ones, men and women, our grandmothers, grandfathers, great-grandfathers, great-great grandparents, great-grandmothers, our forefathers)

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

References

• Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, Domingo Francisco de San Antón Muñón (1997) Arthur J. O. Anderson, Susan Schroeder, transl., Codex Chimalpahin, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, pages vol. 1, pp. 60–61
• Karttunen, Frances (1983) An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl, Austin: University of Texas Press, page 47
• Wimmer, Alexis (2006) “Dictionnaire de la langue nahuatl classique”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎^[1], archived from the original on 10 November 2007