yexanztica

[Amapohuani at aol.com]

Estimado Pablo:

Apart from David Wright's email, just a reminder to all that it is helpful to 
let the list know what one is citing, for example, a publication or a 
manuscript, title, year, page/folio, etc. That way, if some of us have the same book, 
or the ms has been published in a critical edition, then we can doublecheck 
the section it appears in, whether or not an item has been inadvertently 
spelled in a different way, and so on. 

For example, it is my experience that sometimes books have outright errors, 
or a ms may be a copy of something, and in the process of copying the scribe(s) 
can literally misinterpret the characters and make an analysis more 
difficult. And some books and mss have more outright errors than others. 

I think you have the thrust of the item, but to find the most 
recognizable/consultable [sorry for the invented word] constituent parts [not that you can't 
break them down even more] then it would look something like 'yexcan [or 
excan] quiztica' or 'yexcan [or excan] quizqui' or the like -- a standard statement 
in colonial Nahuatl doctrinas. By 'recognizable/consultable' I mean something 
that you can more readily look up in Molina, like these entries from Molina 
2004 [the most recent version of the 1571 edition] on 36r of the NahtoSpan 
side: "Yexcan. en tres parts s, o lugares" [sic] followed by "Yexcan quizqui. 
partido o diuidido en tres partes." 

Good luck with your studies. 

Ye ixquich.
Barry

In a message dated 4/6/07 6:42:08 PM, PGarcia at anselm.edu writes:


> Listeros,
> 
> On behalf of the New England Nahuatl Circle, I would like to get your input 
> on the "yexanztica"...
> 
> The word appears in a _Doctrina_, in a section regarding the three aspects 
> of penitencia. The sentence "Ca yexanztica: ynic ceccan quiztica 
> neyoltequipacholiztli"
> The meaning seems clear: "There are three parts. The first part....", 
> however we would like some input on the possibilities for parsing the term 
> "yexanztica" which, by the way, appears to be related to "quiztica"--another 
> semantically problematic term.
> 
> Gracias de antemano por sus opiniones.
> 
> Saludos,
> Pablo
> 




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