pronoun walking eagle

villas villas at anawak.com
Tue Oct 24 14:39:13 UTC 2006


Thanks to all, this is very helpful.

My curiosity came from a logo that was used by a truck manufacturing 
company in Mexico, DINA. The logo was a walking eagle putting its left 
claw forward. Too bad it dissapeared as it was rather beautiful, it was 
replaced by some abstract corporate logo.



Marcos






On Oct 20, 2006, at 8:58 AM, Michael McCafferty wrote:

> Interesting question.
>
> We can probably *safely* reconstruct this name based on the Nahuatl 
> verb
>
> <coyonehnemi> literally 'he/she/it coyote-walks', which means 
> 'he/she/it walks on all fours', from <coyotl> 'coyote' + <nehnemi> 
> 'he/she/it walks'.
>
> Based on this grammatical and attested term, the reconstruction you're 
> asking for would be <cuauhnehnemi> 'he/she/it walks like an eagle'.
>
> Note that you have to lop off the nominalizing suffix -tl/-tli/-li 
> before you can attach the noun to other terms.
>
> Another way you could safely approach this name would be
>
> <Cuauhtli Nehnemi> '(the/an) Eagle Walks'.
>
> Michael
>
> Quoting villas <villas at anawak.com>:
>
>> What is the noun in nahuatl for Walking Eagle?
>>  My options are so far
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>> Nenemicuauhtli
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>> Cuautlinenemi
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>> which one if any is correct or other suggestions.
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>> Marcos
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