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Classical Nahuatl
Etymology
From tla- + chīhua (“to do, create”) + -lli.
Pronunciation
Noun
tlachīhualli
- Something made: construction; artifact; creation; handiwork.
- ibid., f. 138r.
- Hechiza coſa hecha. tlachiuhtli. tlayocoxtli. tlachiualli.
- Heho, nombre ſuſtantiuo. tlachiualli.tlayocoztli.
- ibid., f. 182v.
- Obra la meſma coſa hecha. tlachiualli. tlachiuhtli.
- 16C: Bernardino de Sahagún, "Florentine Codex", book 1, appendix
- in vel nelli dios teiocuianj, in qujmocujtlaujtzinoa, in jxqujch in jtlachioaltzin.
- (the true God, the Creator Who seeth over all His creation.)
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References
- Andrews, J. Richard (2003) Workbook for Introduction to Classical Nahuatl, rev. ed. edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, page 216
- Karttunen, Frances (1983) An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl, Austin: University of Texas Press, page p 254
- Lockhart, James (2001) Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts, Stanford: Stanford University Press, page 236
- Sahagún, Bernardino de (1981) Arthur J. O. Anderson, Charles E. Dibble, transl., Florentine Codex: Book 1 - The Gods, 2nd ed., rev. edition, Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, page 55