tlacatl

• (Tlaxcala): tlakatl

From Classical Nahuatl tlacatl.

• IPA^(key): [tɬaːkatɬ]

tlacatl (inanimate)

1. man
2. human

• Medina, Genaro. (1999) Curso de Nahuatl, University of Americas, Cholula, Puebla.

From Proto-Nahuan *tlaaka-tl, from Proto-Uto-Aztecan *taka-ta.^[1]

• IPA^(key): [ˈt͡ɬaː.kat͡ɬ]

tlācatl anim (plural tlācah)

1. (he or she is) a person, a human being
2. (he or she is) a slave (when possessed, cf. notlācauh (“he is my slave”)).
3. esteemed person, lord, lady
   • 1889, Bernardino de Sahagún, translated by Arthur J. O. Anderson, Charles E. Dibble, Florentine Codex‎^[2], volume 3, folio 11r:

     in oonia, njman ie ic quiteilhuja, nicnottiliznequi in tlacatl Quetzalcoatl: njman quilhuique, nepa xiauh veventone, mococoialtia in tlacatl, ticamanaz

     When he had gone there, he thereupon said to [the retainers]: “I wish to see the lord Quetzalcoatl.” Then they said to him: “Go hence, little old man. The lord is sick. Thou wilt vex him.”

   • 1649, Luis Laso de la Vega, translated by Lisa Sousa, Stafford Poole, C.M., and James Lockhart, The Story of Guadalupe Luis Laso de la Vega’s Huei tlamahuiçoltica of 1649, pages 82-83:

     ca huel yuh onicnolhuilito in tlacatl in noTecuiyo in ilhuicac Çihuapilli Santa Maria in Teotl Dios itlaçònantzin.

     Indeed I went to tell the lady my patron, the heavenly Lady, Saint Mary, the precious mother of God the deity

   • 2017, Louise M. Burkhart, transl., edited by Barry D. Sell, Abelardo de la Cruz, John Sullivan, and Justyna Olko, In Citlalmachiyotl. The Star Sign: A Colonial Nahua Drama of the Three Kings, page 49,73:

     CAPITÁN REYES: ¡Ma ximopaquiltihtiye, tlacatle, tlahtoanie!

     KINGS’ CAPTAIN: Be joyful, O master, O ruler!

The root of tlacatl serves as the suppletive root for the possessed forms of tlacohtli (“slave”).

• Andrews, J. Richard (2003), Workbook for Introduction to Classical Nahuatl, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, pages 256–257
• Karttunen, Frances (1983), An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl, Austin: University of Texas Press, page 253
• Lockhart, James (2001), Nahuatl as Written, Stanford: Stanford University Press, pages 235–236

From Proto-Nahuan *tlaaka-tl, from Proto-Uto-Aztecan *taka-ta. Cognate to Classical Nahuatl tlācatl.

tlacatl (plural tlacameh)

1. man.

From Proto-Nahuan *tlaaka-tl, from Proto-Uto-Aztecan *taka-ta.

tlacatl

1. man

• Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C. (2006), Pequeño diccionario ilustrado: Náhuatl de los municipios de Zacatlán, Tepetzintla y Ahuacatlán‎^[3], segunda edición edition, Tlalpan, D.F. México: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 23