tlacatiliztli
Classical Nahuatl
Alternative forms
- tlācatiliztli
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tɬaːkatilistɬi/
Noun
tlācatiliztli
- Birth.
- 1555, Alonso de Molina, Aqui comienca vn vocabulario en la lengua castellana y mexicana, f. 178v:
- Nacimiento de coſas animadas. tlacatiliztli.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 1645, Horacio Carochi, Arte de la lengua mexicana con la declaración de los adverbios della, f. 97r:
- oc yuhmōztla ītlācatiliztzin in Totēcuiyo in ōhuāllà in motitlantzin, vn dia antes de Nauidad vino tu mensajero.
(Your messenger came a day before the birth of our Lord [i.e. Christmas].)- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
References
- Carochi, Horacio (2001) James Lockhart, transl., Grammar of the Mexican Language, With an Explanation of its Adverbs (1645), Stanford: Stanford University Press, pages 358–359
- Karttunen, Frances (1983) An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl, Austin: University of Texas Press, page 253