tzapotecatl
Central Nahuatl
editNoun
edittzapotecatl
Classical Nahuatl
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editEtymology
edittzapotl (“sapote”) + tecatl (“inhabitant of place”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editTzapotecatl (plural tzapotecah)
- Zapotec.
- c. 1500, Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex book 1:
- Anaoatl iteouh: tzapoteca in vel inteuh catca,
- He was the god of the seashore people, the proper god of the Zapotecs.
- Anaoatl iteouh: tzapoteca in vel inteuh catca,
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editReferences
edit- Sahagún, Bernardino de (1981) Arthur J. O. Anderson, Charles E. Dibble, transl., Florentine Codex: Book 1 - The Gods, 2nd ed., rev. edition, Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, page 39