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Highland Popoluca
Etymology
Borrowed from a Nahuan language; cf. Classical Nahuatl tzitzimitl (a kind of female demon that descends from the sky to eat people during solar eclipses), Mecayapan Nahuatl tzitzimiꞌ (“devil, Satan”).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Tsitsimat
- a mythological being like a witch with a single central breast
1947, Fermín Gutiérrez, Ben Elson, “The Homshuk: A Sierra Popoluca Text”, in Tlalocan: A Journal of Source Materials on the Native Cultures of Mexico, volume II, number 3, pages 193–214:1. ȼiˌȼimat¹ tuum ˌčoomo ˀitʸ-ˌˀidʸʌk² kooȼʌkˌhoom.- An old woman named Tsitsimat lived in the mountains.
References
- Elson, Benjamin F., Gutiérrez G., Donaciano (1999) Diccionario popoluca de la Sierra, Veracruz (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 41) (in Spanish), Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., →ISBN, page 111