Help please

Roland Trevino cloud_jaguar at EARTHLINK.NET
Tue Jun 29 01:37:19 UTC 2004


Hello, i am new to studying Nahuatl and i have been working extensively with
Campbell and Karttunen's foundation course books (vols. 1 and 2).  I am
getting some command of the vocabulary but i am woefully feeble at
contracting words.

Please help with the following words:

CLOUD JAGUAR -- cloud is Mix (any other words for this?) / jaguar is Ocelotl
or Tecuani
    --- so would this word then be Mixocelotl? or Mixtecuani ?  (that just
seems wrong to me :)

SMOKE BUTTERFLY -- butterfly is Papalotl / smoke is Poctli
   --- so would this word then be Poctlipapalotl (again, this just seems
wrong)

Thank you,
~Roland Trevino, Esq.



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