ömatl

Tetelcingo Nahuatl

Etymology

From Proto-Nahuan *aama-tl (“a kind of fig tree; paper”).[1]

Noun

ömatl (plural ömame)

  1. paper

References

  1. ^ Campbell, Lyle; Langacker, Ronald W. (October 1978), “Proto-Aztecan Vowels: Part III”, in International Journal of American Linguistics, volume 44, number 4, page 266 of 262–279: “(124) paper (amate, a species of fig tree) *aama-”
  • Brewer, Forrest; Brewer, Jean G. (1962), Vocabulario mexicano de Tetelcingo, Morelos, segunda impresión edition, México, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, published 1971, page 170
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