tzictli

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tzictli

  1. gomma
  2. gomma da masticare

Tradizionalmente il sostantivo è collegato al verbo causativo tzicoā ("incollare, far aderire"), di cui tzictli costituirebbe una nominalizzazione.[1] Altri, però, presuppongono la forma intransitiva tzicahui ("essere/divenire colloso, aderente; aderire") alla base del termine.[2] Dal momento che i verbi formati con una struttura affine a quella di tzicahui sono denominali, non è da escludere che sia proprio tzicahui a derivare da tzictli e non viceversa.

  1. Frances E. Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl, University of Oklahoma Press, 1983, p. 311
  2. J. R. Andrews, Introduction to Classical Nahuatl, University of Oklahoma Press, 2003, p. 388