cuicuitzcatl

See also: cuīcuītzcatl

Classical Nahuatl

Alternative forms

• cuīcuītzcatl (Carochi)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kʷiːkʷiːtskatɬ/

Noun

cuīcuītzcatl (plural cuīcuītzcameh)

1. Swallow.
   • 1555, Alonso de Molina, Aqui comienca un vocabulario en la lengua castellana y mexicana, f. 131r:

     Golondrina.cuicuitzcatl.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 16C: Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex, book 11, chapter 2, paragraph 3

     CUJCUJTZCATL: tliltontli, tenvitzpil, xopapachton [etc.]

     (Barn swallow: It is small and black, with small, pointed bill, with small, short legs.)

   • 1645, Horacio Carochi, Arte de la lengua mexicana con la declaracion de los adverbios della, f. 4r:

     cuīcuītzcatl, golondrina: cuīcuītzcámê, golondrinas.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Derived terms

• cuicuitzcaconetl

References

• Carochi, Horacio (2001) James Lockhart, transl., Grammar of the Mexican Language, with an Explanation of its Adverbs (1645), Stanford: Stanford University Press, pages 30–31
• Sahagún, Bernardino de (1981) Arthur J. O. Anderson, Charles E. Dibble, transl., Florentine Codex: Book 11 — Earthly Things, Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, page 28