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Central Nahuatl
Alternative forms
Noun
cocoxqui
- ill, sick.
Classical Nahuatl
Alternative forms
Etymology
cocoya (“to be sick”) + -qui
Pronunciation
Noun
cocoxqui (absolutive plural cocoxqueh, possessive singular īcocoxcāuh, possessive plural īcocoxcāhuān)
- Someone or something sick, ill.
- A gay man who is the passive partner in sex; a bottom.
- Synonyms: cuiloni, chimouhqui
- Ibid., f. 205r:
- Puto que padece uiloni.chimouhqui.cucuxqui.
- vulva
- Synonyms: tepilli, nenetl
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References
- Andrews, J. Richard (2003) Workbook for Introduction to Classical Nahuatl, rev. ed. edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, page 213
- Karttunen, Frances (1983) An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl, Austin: University of Texas Press, page 40
- Lockhart, James (2001) Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts, Stanford: Stanford University Press, page 215
- Sahagún, Bernardino de (1981) Arthur J. O. Anderson, Charles E. Dibble, transl., Florentine Codex, 2nd ed., rev. edition, Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, page part XI, p. 124