nextlahualli
Classical Nahuatl
editEtymology
editFrom ixtlāhua (“to pay”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editnextlāhualli inan or anim (plural nextlāhualtin)
- (inanimate) (it is) a sacrifice or blood offering.
- 1571, Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, pt 2, f. 5r. col. 1:
- Nextlaualli. ſacrificio de ſangre, que ofrecian alos ydolos, ſajandose o horadando alguna parte del cuerpo.
- Nextlaualli. a blood sacrifice which they offered to their idols by cutting and piercing parts of their body.
- 1571, Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, pt 1, f. 106v. col. 1:
- Sacrificio o ofrenda. ventli. tlamanaliztli. vemmanaliztli. nextlaualli.
A sacrifice or offering. ventli. tlamanaliztli. vemmanaliztli. nextlaualli.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- (animate) (he or she is) a person offered as sacrifice.