iyetl

Classical Nahuatl

Alternative forms

• yetl

Etymology

From Proto-Uto-Aztecan *pipa.

Noun

iyetl

1. tobacco
   • 1524, Bernardino de Sahagún, Coloquios y doctrina cristiana

     auh no yehuan quitemaca ... in xochitl, in iyetl, ...

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 1547, Andrés de Olmos, Arte para aprender la lengua mexicana, ed. by Rémi Siméon (1875)

     Yetl, çahumerio, niyeuh, mi tal çahumerio.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

References

• Andrews, J. Richard. (2003) Workbook for Introduction to Classical Nahuatl, Revised Edition, University of Oklahoma Press, p. 231.