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[Frances Karttunen]

on 6/22/04 7:04 PM, Susana Moraleda-Dragotto at susana at DRAGOTTO.COM wrote:

Hello,
I came across a Nahuatl text written in a book, and found an incredible word
I was not able to decipher: XOXOPANXOCO (??!!). The complete text is:

Can a nicuicanitl huiya
xochitl in noyollo ya
nicmana nocuic a ohuaya ohuaya
o xoxopanxoco o xoxopanxoco.

Thanks for your help.

Susana



Can you tell us more about the source/context?  This looks like a verse from
one of the xopancuicatl 'songs of the green time.'  If we could look up the
whole song, it would help.

Robinson tried to add -co to xo:- 'green' to form an instrumental, but that
doesn't really work. It's better to look further.  Xo:coh is 'youngest
child' and xoco-tl is 'fruit.'




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