re maquilia?

[John Sullivan]

Magnus, Galen and Michael,
	I can't find maquilia in any of the standard Classical dictionaries, so it's probably from the Spanish. Ma:itl+aqui would be nice except for the fact that the first "a" in maquilia isn't long. I guess the only strange thing is how the native speakers got their heads around the idea of a triple object verb, maquilia, being used to refer to a single object action.
John

On Nov 10, 2010, at 9:01 AM, Magnus Pharao Hansen wrote:

> Isn't it just the applicative of "maca" "give"? 
> 
> In Hueyapan Nahuatl maca means both to hit and to give (as it does also in Spanish)  when it is made applicative it further mimics the spanish construction where the object of a hitting action is not a direct object but a dative. 
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> Magnus
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> Subject: [Nahuat-l] maquilia
> Piyali notequixpoyohuan,
> 	Does anybody have any ideas about how the word "maquilia," "to hit s.o., an animal or s.t." is constructed?
> John
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