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Classical Nahuatl
Etymology
tonalli + chichicaquilitl
Noun
tonalchichicaquilitl
- A kind of plant, probably Oenothera laciniata.
- 16C: Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex, book 11, chapter 7, paragraph 4
- TONALCHICHICAQUJLITL, in tlalhoacpan, in çaçacatla in quauhtla mochioa, cuetlanextic nexeoac
- (TONALCHICHICAQUILITL: It grows in dry lands, in the grasslands, in the forest. It is a faded ashen color, ashen; )
References
- Sahagún, Bernardino de (1981) Arthur J. O. Anderson, Charles E. Dibble, transl., Florentine Codex, 2nd ed., rev. edition, Salt Lake City: The University of Utah Press, page part 11, p. 137