tzoncui

Classical Nahuatl

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tsonkʷi/

Verb

tzoncui

1. (reflexive) To take vengeance.
   • 1645, Horacio Carochi, Arte de la lengua mexicana con la declaración de los adverbios della, f. 96v:

     oc achìtonca, oc cuēl áchīc ītech ninotzoncuiz, dentro de muy breue rato me vengarè del.
     (Within a very short time I will take vengeance on him.)

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References

• Karttunen, Frances (1983) An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl, Austin: University of Texas Press, page 317
• Carochi, Horacio (2001) James Lockhart, transl., Grammar of the Mexican Language, with an Explanation of its Adverbs (1645), Stanford: Stanford University Press, pages 354–355