poliuhqui

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Classical Nahuatl

Etymology

From polihui (“to disappear, perish, be spent”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

poliuhqui

Something lost or condemned.
- 1571, Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, f. 83r. col. 1:
  Poliuhqui. coſa que ſe perdio.
  (Poliuhqui. thing that has been lost.)
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Descendants

Spanish: pulque (uncertain)

References

Frances Karttunen (1992) An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl, University of Oklahoma Press, page 202

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