tlapallahcuiloh
Classical Nahuatl
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editEtymology
editPreterite agentive of tlapallahcuiloa, from tlapalli "color" + tlahcuiloa "to paint".
Pronunciation
editNoun
edittlapallahcuiloh (plural tlapallahcuilohqueh)
- A painter.
- 1570: petition of a group of painters to the Spanish alcalde mayor
- yn téhuantin titlapallácuilóque nican tochan tollantzinco
(we painters whose home is here in Tulancingo)- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 1570: petition of a group of painters to the Spanish alcalde mayor
References
edit- Lockhart, James (1991) Nahuas and Spaniards: Postconquest Central Mexican History and Philology, Stanford: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, page p, 92