Camohpaltic

[Michael McCafferty]

Quoting "John Sullivan, Ph.D." <idiez at me.com>:

> Baert,
> 	"Camohtli" is the purple sweet potato, and "camohtic" is the color
> purple in Huastecan Nahuatl.

> 	"Cahmo (ca ahmo)" cannot be used as the nucleus of a noun, and even
> if it could, the "h" in "camohpaltic" is not in the same place as the
>  "h" in "cahmo"
> John

John,

the other night when Susana wrote me asking about "camopaltic" and 
asked, "What is the cam-", I thought about camohtli 'sweet potato'. But 
I dismissed it, because around here sweet potatoes are orange. 
Consequently, I had no idea what the "cam-" could be. Thanks for the 
lesson in biodiversity. :-)

Michael


On Nov 1, 2009, at 4:28 PM, Baert Georges wrote:
>
>> Camohpaltic:
>> ·     Dark brown;
>> ·     R.Siméon 56, camohpalli, brown, dark violet.
>> ·     Molina II,12r, color morado oscuro.
>> ·     Form on paltic, morp.incorp., camoh-tli.
>> Cahmo (ca-ahmo): it is not at all (Sah.6,129) (Launey).
>> ·     Paltic, form on palli: colored.
>> ·     So camohpaltic could be translated as, not colored at all,
>> because of the very dark color.
>> Lahun Ik 62
>> Baert Georges
>> Flanders Fields
>>
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