chichimecatl
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Central Nahuatl
Noun
chichimecatl
- Chichimec people.
Classical Nahuatl
Alternative forms
Singular
- chichimecatl
- Chīchīmēcatl
Plural
Etymology
Chīchīmān (place name) + -ēcatl "inhabitant"
This is sometimes said to be derived from chichi "dog", but the vowel length differs.
Pronunciation
Noun
Chīchīmēcatl (plural Chīchīmēcah)
- A Chichimec; Chichimeca.
- c. 1540–1580, Book 10 the Florentine Codex
- Iz catqui in intlaqual chichimeca
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 1645, Horacio Carochi, Arte de la lengua mexicana con la declaración de todos sus adverbios, ed. by James Lockhart (2001)
- Chīchīmēcatl, Chichimeco de nacion ... Plurales se forman con solo perdese la final, tl, y poniendo sobre la vltima vocal el saltillo final, (^) que hemos dicho ser accento de todo plural acabado en vocal desta manera Mexicâ, Otomî, Chīchīmēcâ, Tepotzòtēcâ, Tetzcòcâ.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- c. 1540–1580, Book 10 the Florentine Codex
Derived terms
References
- Andrews, J. Richard. (2003) Workbook for Introduction to Classical Nahuatl, Revised Edition, University of Oklahoma Press, p. 216.
- Karttunen, Frances. (1983) An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl, University of Texas Press, p. 48.
- Lockhart, James. (2001) Nahuatl as Written, Stanford University Press, p. 214.