tepozmaccuahuitl
Classical Nahuatl
Alternative forms
Etymology
From tepoztli (“metal”) + māccuahuitl (“a hand-held club”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /te.pos.maːk.kʷa.witɬ/
Noun
tepozmāccuahuitl
- sword.
- 1555, Alonso de Molina, Aqui comienca un vocabulario en la lengua castellana y mexicana, f. 114v:
- Eſpada. tepuzmacquauitl.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 1640–41: Bartolomé de Alva (trans.), The Animal Prophet and the Fortunate Patricide, f. 22v.
- ymeço yc ticàaltiz yn tepozmāhquahuitl
(You will bathe the sword with their blood.)- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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References
- Sell, Barry D. with Louise M. Burkhart and Elizabeth R. Wright (eds. and trans.) (2008), Nahuatl Theater, Volume 3: Spanish Golden Age Drama in Mexican Translation, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, page 187