malinalli
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The glyph corresponding to the day ōme malīnalli (“two twisted straw”), as depicted in the codex Magliabechiano.
Central Nahuatl
Etymology
From Classical Nahuatl malinalli.
Noun
malinalli
- (it is) a twisted or braided grass stalk used as a building material
Classical Nahuatl
Alternative forms
Etymology
From malīna (“to twist”) + -lli.
Pronunciation
Noun
malīnalli (inanimate)
- (it is) a twisted or braided grass stalk used as a building material
- 1555, Alonso de Molina, Aqui comienca vn vocabulario en la lengua castellana y mexicana, f. 187r:
- Paja para hazer caſas. ocoçacatl.malinalli.çacacueitl.
- Straw used to build houses. ocoçacatl. malinalli. çacacueitl.
- (it is) the twelfth of the twenty day signs of the tōnalpōhualli; a bundle of grass growing from a human jaw
- 16th c., Codex Magliabechiano, f. 12v.
- Vme maljnalj / q quiere dezir dos / yeruas deſte / nonbre por q tor / çer quiere dezir / maljnale
- Vme maljnalj. which means “two weeds of this name”, because maljnale is also to say “to twist”.
- 16th c., Codex Magliabechiano, f. 12v.
Related terms
- (plants used as a building material): ocōzacatl, zacacuēitl
References
- Rémi Siméon (1885) Diccionario de la lengua náhuatl o mexicana, Siglo Veintiuno Editores, page 251
- Krystyna M. Libura (2002) Los días y dioses del Códice Borgia, Ediciones Tecolote, page 13