Huitznahuic

[Michael McCafferty]

Quoting "John F. Schwaller" <schwallr at potsdam.edu>:

> My original feeling was that it was Huitznahuac [as in the centzon
> huitznahuac] which had gotten garbled in the last few decades, but
> Villalonga assured me that huitznahuic was the correct form.


Yes. Huitznahuac occurred to me, too. And Huitznahuac is only *one* 
little vowel different from Huitznahuic. Suspicious.





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>> Quoting "John F. Schwaller" <schwallr at potsdam.edu>:
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>>> Recently I received a query from Catalunya regarding the name
>>> Huitznahuic, which was the name locals had given to the Pyramid of the
>>> Sun at Teotihuacan.
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>> It *looks like* 'thorn-four-place', from huitz-na:hui-c
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>> ...although *huitzna:uhco" sounds better to me.
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>> Anybody have an idea?
>>
>> Michael
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>>>
>>>>> > >> First Name: Anabel
>>>>> > >> Last Name: Villalonga Gordaliza
>>>>> > >> Email: annabel.villalonga at uab.cat
>>>>> > >> Culture: Teotihuacan
>>>>> > >> Abstract: I would like to know about the meaning of
>>>>> \"Huitznahuic\"
>>>>> > >> because I found that in s.XIX some people from San Juan
>>>>> Teotihuacan
>>>>> > >> called the Sun Pyramid with this name. I\'m doing my thesis and
>>>>> Dr.
>>>>> > >> Alfonso Lacadena from Madrid suggested me to contact with you.
>>>>>
>>>
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> --
> John F. Schwaller
> President,
> SUNY Potsdam
> 44 Pierrepont Ave.
> Potsdam, NY  13676
> schwallr at potsdam.edu
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