About the word "teotl" and Ometeotl

Craig Berry cberry at cine.net
Mon Dec 4 19:47:03 UTC 2006


On Sun, 3 Dec 2006, Ramiro Medrano wrote:

> I have read how many scholars believe the word "teotl" translates to
> "god," but I am not sure from where they take this belief. Maybe from
> the Spanish friars who were translating codices and such?
[snip]

I'm an amateur in this field, but I posted a few years ago on my own
understanding of 'teotl', and nobody laughed at me (in my hearing,
anyway):

http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0001d&L=nahuat-l&P=2980

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