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Classical Nahuatl
Alternative forms
Etymology
temiqui (“to dream”) + -tli
Pronunciation
Noun
temictli
- dream
- illusion
1645, Horacio Carochi, Arte de la lengua mexicana con la declaración de los adverbios della, f. 93v:çan yuhquin cochìtlēhualli tēmictli īpan ticmatizquè iniz tlalticpac ic pācoa: in totechmonequi yè àcohuic, vel ilhuicacopahuic toconitztiltìtiāzquè in totlaēlēhuiliz. Hemos de mirar como sueños los gustos de la tierra, y encaminar nuestros desseos hàzia lo de arriba, hàzia el cielo.
(We must consider the pleasures of the earth as dreams and direct our desires toward the things of above, towards heaven.)- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Derived terms
References
- Carochi, Horacio (2001) James Lockhart, transl., Grammar of the Mexican Language, with an Explanation of its Adverbs (1645), Stanford: Stanford University Press, pages 344–345, 372–373
- Karttunen, Frances (1983) An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl, Austin: University of Texas Press, page 223