yolcatl

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Central Nahuatl

Alternative forms

(Cholula): yulcatl
(Texcoco): yolkatl

Etymology

From Classical Nahuatl yolcatl.

Noun

yolcatl (inanimate)

Animal, bug.

Classical Nahuatl

Etymology

From yōli (“to live”). Compare yōlqui (“living thing, beast of burden”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈjoːɬkat͡ɬ/

Noun

yōlcatl (animate, plural yōlcameh)

A bug; an insect.
- 1555, Alonso de Molina, Aqui comienca un vocabulario en la lengua castellana y mexicana, f. 33v:
  Biua coſa como ſauandija. yolcatl.
  A thing that is alive, like a bug. yolcatl.
- 1571, Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, f. 39v. col. 2:
  Yolcatl. ſauandija.
  Yolcatl. a bug.
- c. 1600, anonymous author, Anónimo mexicano, f. 2v:
  quicauyia yn tlen cacia yolcame papalome-
  and they ate whatever they found, insects and butterflies.
- Idem, f. 15r.
  niman tlahuê-manque nepapan Yo lca me,
  Then they made an offering of various insects.

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References

Richley H. Crapo, Bonnie Glass-Coffin, transl. (2005), Anónimo Mexicano, Logan: Utah State University Press, page 35
Alonso de Molina (2008) Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana (1571), Editorial Porrúa, page 39

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