teoyotl
Central Nahuatl
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editteoyotl
Classical Nahuatl
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editteōyōtl (inanimate)
- Something divine or spiritual; divinity, spirituality.
- 1571, Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, f. 46r. col. 2:
- Diuina o eſpiritual coſa. teoyotl. / Diuina o eſpiritualmente. teoyotica. / Diuinidad. teoyotl.
- Something divine or spiritual. teoyotl. / Divinely or spiritually. teoyotica. / Divinity. teoyotl.
- Idem, f. 101r. col. 1.
- Teoyotl. coſa ſpiritual,o coſa diunia.
- Teoyotl. something spiritual, or something divine.
- Teoyotl. coſa ſpiritual,o coſa diunia.
- (Christianity) sacrament
- 1571, Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, f. 101r. col. 1:
- Teoyotl ycoualoca. ſimonia.
- Teoyotl ycoualoca. simony. [literally “the selling of spiritual things”]
Synonyms
edit- (something divine): teōyoh
Related terms
editReferences
edit- Frances Karttunen (1992) An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl, University of Oklahoma Press, page 228