chachauatl
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Classical Nahuatl
Alternative forms
Noun
chachauatl
- Merriam's pocket gopher (Cratogeomys merriami).
- 1555, Alonso de Molina, Aqui comienca un vocabulario en la lengua castellana y mexicana, f. 156v:
- Liron animal. xaltoçan.uiçacotl.chachauatl.
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- 16C: Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex, book 11, chapter 1, paragraph 7
- CHACHAOATL: camaxiqujpile, anoço camaxixiquj: iuhqujn toçan, tomavac, cujtlatomactontli
- (POCKET GOPHER: It is the cheek-bagged one; or the cheek-bags. Like the gopher, it is thick, with small, thick back. )
References
- Sahagún, Bernardino de (1963) Charles E. Dibble, Arthur J. O. Anderson, transl., Florentine Codex, Book 11 - Earthly Things, Salt Lake City: The University of Utah Press, page 18