poliuhqui

Classical Nahuatl

Etymology

From polihui (“to disappear, perish, be spent”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [poˈliʍ.ki]

Noun

poliuhqui

1. Something lost or condemned.
   • 1571, Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, f. 83r. col. 1:

     Poliuhqui. coſa que ſe perdio.
     (Poliuhqui. thing that has been lost.)

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Descendants

• Spanish: pulque (uncertain)

References

• Frances Karttunen (1992) An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl, University of Oklahoma Press, page 202