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Classical Nahuatl
Etymology
petlatl (“mat”) + -zolli (“old”). Cognate with Tetelcingo Nahuatl petlasoli̱.
Pronunciation
Noun
petlazolli
- old, worn mat
- centipede
- 16C: Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex, book 11, chapter 5, paragraph 7
- Auh injc mjtoa petlaçolli: ipampa in patlachtic, yoan cenca mijec in jma: qujtoa, centzontli: in juhquj petlatl, petlaçolli tẽxitinj, ca cenca mjec in qujqujztiuh, itenpapaçoliuhca: ipan ommota in jma
- (And it is called petlaçolli because it is wide and very many are its legs — 400, they say — like a straw mat, one whose edges are frayed; which has many of its rolled edges coming out. They are taken for its legs.)
Derived terms
References
- Brewer, Forrest, Jean G. Brewer (1962) Vocabulario mexicano de Telecingo, Morelos: castellano-mexicano, mexicano-castellano, México: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, pages 22, 173
- Karttunen, Frances (1983) An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl, Austin: University of Texas Press, page 192
- 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, pages 86–87