Translation Assistance for Nahua-inspired Lullaby

[Michael McCafferty]

Quoting Cindy Williams Gutierrez <cindy at grito-poetry.com>:

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> Dear Nahuatl Enthusiasts:
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> Can someone kindly help with a translation of the following lines (or
> point me to a resource for translation):
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> *	"Sleep, small one"
> *	"Let me be the cottonwood, the juniper"


I'm a sucker, perhaps a buffalo fish, so I'll take the bait.

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"Xicochi, conetzin,
Xinechchihuacan in pochotl, in X..."


X means I don't have "juniper" in my Nahuatl vocabulary, or so I think. 
I have it in Navajo, French, and Miami-Illinois, but not in Nahuatl.

Could I interest you in fir, pine, or cypress?

oyametl 'fir', ocotl 'pine', ahuehuetl 'cypress'

:-)

Hopefully, someone else can supply the juniper.

Michael


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> I'm working on a Nahua-inspired lullaby poem.
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> Thank you kindly,
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> Cindy WG
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