ahuatl

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Central Nahuatl

Noun

ahuatl (inanimate)

oak tree.

Classical Nahuatl

Etymology 1

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Pronunciation

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Noun

āhuatl (inanimate)

oak tree
- 1555, Alonso de Molina, Aqui comienca vn vocabulario en la lengua castellana y mexicana, f. 109r:
  Enzina. auaquauitl.auatl.
  An oak tree. auaquauitl. auatl.
- Idem, f. 216v.
  Roble arbol. auaquauitl. auatl.
  An oak tree. auaquauitl. auatl.
- 1571, Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, f. 57v. col. 1:
  Enzina. auaquauitl. auatl.
  An oak tree. auaquauitl. auatl.
- Idem, f. 105r. col. 2.
  Roble arbol. auaquauitl. auatl.
  An oak tree. auaquauitl. auatl.
- Idem, f. 9r. col. 2.
  Auatl. enzina,roble, guſano lanudo. o eſpina.
  Auatl. an oak tree, a woolly worm, or a thorn.

Derived terms

Etymology 2

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Pronunciation

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Noun

āhuātl (animate)

A woolly kind of caterpillar.
- 1571, Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, f. 9r. col. 2:
  Auatl. enzina,roble, guſano lanudo. o eſpina.
  Auatl. an oak tree, a woolly worm, or a thorn.
- 1645, Horacio Carochi, Arte de la lengua mexicana con la declaración de los adverbios della:
  āhuātl, ambas largas, gusano lanudo de arbol.
  āhuātl, with both vowels long, a woolly tree worm.

Synonyms

āhuātecolōtl

Etymology 3

Noun

ahuatl (inanimate)

Obsolete spelling of ahhuatl.

References

Carochi, Horacio (2001) James Lockhart, transl., Grammar of the Mexican Language, with an Explanation of its Adverbs (1645), Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, pages 466–467
Karttunen, Frances (1983) An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl, Austin: University of Texas Press, page 8

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