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Classical Nahuatl
Pronunciation
Noun
zahuatl
- Pox; rash.
- 17C: Chimalpahin, "Don Gabriel de Ayala's Year Count", f. 80r.
- ¶ xi calli xihuitl 1529 años ypan in çahuatl momanaco totomonihuac
- (The year Eleven House, 1529. At this time smallpox prevailed; there were blisters.)
1645, Horacio Carochi, Arte de la lengua mexicana con la declaración de los adverbios della, f. 127r:Çáhuátl, ambas breues, sarna, ò viruelas, ò cosas semejante.- Çahuatl, with both vowels short, rash, smallpox, or the like.
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References
- Carochi, Horacio (2001) James Lockhart, transl., Grammar of the Mexican Language, with an Explanation of its Adverbs (1645), Stanford: Stanford University Press, pages 468–469
- Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, Domingo Francisco de San Antón Muñón (1997) Arthur J. O. Anderson, Susan Schroeder, transl., Codex Chimalpahin, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, pages 236–237
- Karttunen, Frances (1983) An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl, Austin: University of Texas Press, page 345