Nahuatl Pronouns

[David Becraft]

It propably comes from "(na) + (huatl)", clear sound, or just audible sound 
in general.  My opinion is not based on any research I've done, just off the 
top of my head.

Pancho


>From: Arnd Sölling <arnibionic at YAHOO.DE>
>Reply-To: Nahua language and culture discussion <NAHUAT-L at LISTS.UMN.EDU>
>To: NAHUAT-L at LISTS.UMN.EDU
>Subject: Nahuatl Pronouns
>Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2006 17:33:40 +0100
>
>Niltze,
>
>   I am working on cross-dialectal linguistics of Nahuatl and have come to 
>a question i could not resolve...maybe somebody can help me out...comparing 
>the independent pronouns in the various dialects i noticed that some 
>dialects show shortened forms like ye or yeh while other retain the old 
>classical form like yehuatl...does anyone know the meaning of the stem 
>-huatl or where it comes from?
>
>   Thank you,
>   Arnd Sölling
>
>
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