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Classical Nahuatl
Etymology
From etzalli (“beans and cooked maize”) + cua (“to eat”) + -liztli.
Pronunciation
Noun
etzalcualiztli (inanimate)
- (it is) the eating of beans and cooked maize.
- (it is) the sixth of the eighteen veintenas of the xiuhpōhualli, dedicated to the tlālohqueh.
1585, Bernardino de Sahagún, Kalendario mexicano, latino y castellano, f. 89v:Sexto Mes delos Mexicanos llamado: etzalqualiztli enque hazian fiesta alos Dioses dela pluuia llamados: Tlaloque.- Sixth month of the Mexicans called etzalqualiztli, in which they celebrated the rain gods called tlaloque.