yolqui
Central Nahuatl
editEtymology
editFrom Classical Nahuatl yolqui.
Noun
edityolqui (animate)
- Animal, beast.
Classical Nahuatl
editEtymology
editFrom yōli (“live”) + -qui. Compare yōlcatl (“insect”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
edityōlqui (plural yōlqueh)
- A living thing.
- A beast of burden.
References
edit- Campbell, R. Joe (1997) “Florentine Codex Vocabulary”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)[1], archived from the original on 20 February 2011
- Karttunen, Francis (1983) An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl, Austin: University of Texas Press, page 343
- Lockhart, James (2001) Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts, Stanford: Stanford University Press, page 242