Translation Assistance for Nahua-inspired Lullaby

[John Sullivan]

Listeros,
	I don't know how to say juniper, and there is a town in Veracruz called Ichcacuatitlan, so in Modern Huastecan Nahuatl....
Xicochi nopilconeuh, 
Ma nimocuapa ichcacuahuitl...
John

On Oct 11, 2010, at 5:34 PM, Michael McCafferty wrote:

> 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..."
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> 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'
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> :-)
> 
> 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,
>> 
>> Cindy WG
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