Edgar: doublets, bifrasismos, difrasismos

[ANTHONY APPLEYARD]

 --- Stephanie Wood <swood at DARKWING.UOREGON.EDU> wrote:
> ... the implications behind in atl, in tepetl?

If you mean "atltepetl" = "it is water and it is a hill" = "it is a
village: in the Valley of Mexico the village needs water for drinking
and irrigation, and preferably a hill to build a fort on or to live on
out of reach of floods. Or else, where there has beenb a village for a
long time, the ground slowly builds up into a mound.