tlayohualli

Classical Nahuatl

Alternative forms

Etymology

From tlayohua (“to get dark”) +‎ -lli.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tɬajo(w)alli/

Noun

tlayohualli

  1. Darkness.
  2. An unenlightened state.
    • 16C: Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex, book 1
      ca cenca vey tlaiooalli, yoan netlapololtiliztli, yn atlaneltoqujliztli, in tlateutoqujliztli, in jpan oamechcauhtiaque yn amotahoan, yn amoculhoan, yn amachcoculhoan
      (Very great was the darkness and the confusion, the unbelief, the idolatry in which your fathers, your grandfathers, your great-grandfathers left you)

References

  • Sahagún, Bernardino de (1981), Arthur J. O. Anderson, Charles E. Dibble, transl., Florentine Codex, Book 1, Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, page 55
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