tamazolin

Central Nahuatl

Alternative forms

• (Tlaxcala): tamasoli

Etymology

From Classical Nahuatl tamazolin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tamasolin/

Noun

tamazolin

1. toad.

Classical Nahuatl

Alternative forms

• tamaçoli, tamaçulin (obsolete)

Etymology

Compare Highland Puebla Nahuatl tama̱soli̱n, Northern Puebla Nahuatl temasoli, Tetelcingo Nahuatl tamasoli̱, Zacatlán-Ahuacatlán-Tepetzintla Nahuatl tamasolin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tamasolin̥/

Noun

tamazolin

1. toad
   • 1555, Alonso de Molina, Aqui comienca un vocabulario en la lengua castellana y mexicana, f. 113v:

     Eſcuerço o ſapo. tamaçulin.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 16C, Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex, book 11, chapter 5, paragraph 4

     TAMAÇOLI: ololpol, catzacpol, iaiacpol, chachaquachtic, teçontic, in jtlatol: cujtlatolpol, cujtlatolompol [...]

     (TOAD: It is round, dirty, dark. Its voice is coarse, rough. It is very fat, very corpulent, [etc.])

References

• Andrews, J. Richard (2003) Workbook for Introduction to Classical Nahuatl, rev. ed. edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, page 249
• Karttunen, Frances (1983) An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl, Austin: University of Texas Press, page 214
• Sahagún, Bernardino de (1963) Charles E. Dibble, Arthur J. O. Anderson, transl., Florentine Codex, Book 11 - Earthly Things, Salt Lake City: The University of Utah Press, page 73