xopantlah

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Classical Nahuatl

Alternative forms

xōpantlà

Etymology

xō- "green" + -pan "at" + +‎ -tlah.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ʃoːpantɬaʔ/

Noun

xōpantlah (locative)

rainy season; summer
- 1645, Horacio Carochi, Arte de la lengua mexicana con la declaración de los adverbios della:
  intlā āxcān xōpantlà ticecmiqui, quēn ocyè, vel quēnçan yè ticecmiquiz izcéhuetzilizpan? si aora en verano tienes frio, quãto mas le tẽdras en tiẽpo de frios, y yelos?
  (If you are cold now in summer, how much colder will you be in the time of cold and ice?)
  (please add an English translation of this quotation)

References

Andrews, J. Richard (2003) Workbook for Introduction to Classical Nahuatl, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, page 265
Carochi, Horacio (2001) James Lockhart, transl., Grammar of the Mexican Language, with an Explanation of its Adverbs (1645), Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, pages 326–327
Karttunen, Frances (1983) An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl, Austin: University of Texas Press, page 331

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