-tzin

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-tzin (pl.: -tzintli)

  1. suffisso onorifico (spesso privo del suffisso assolutivo -tli):
    Atl ("acqua") → ātzin ("acqua sacra").
    Monan ("tua madre") → monāntzin ("la vostra onorevole madre").
    Pilli ("nobile") → nopiltzitzintinehuān ("o, miei signori").
  • Frances E. Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl, University of Oklahoma Press, 1983, p. 314