Help! (oops!)

[M Launey]

Sorry for the mistake in my preceding (and second) message

Of course we speak about ne-cuiti-l-li, not ne-cuitlahui-l-li

But after all this could come from a subliminal hypothesis, because in-ne-cuiti-l (which is otherwise attested in the corpus) could fit for the meaning.

My shame is great, and I swear this is my last message for today

M.L.

 

 

Thinking more about it.
The morphological pattern seems pretty clear (ne-cuitla-hui-l-li), as I told in my preceding message.

However, I'm bothered by the context (why would the priests "make" confessions in august?

So my second hypothesis is: ni-c-no-cuitia, which for obvious reasons mostly appears in the corpus with the meaning "I confess sth.", actually has another (probably anterior) meaning such as "fulfill a task" or something like that. Any hints?

Best

M.L.

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> Tocnihuan. 
> Do you have any idea about the meaning of "ynnecuitil / yn necuitil". 
> It appears in a colonial text (end of s. XVI) I am translating. 
> The context is: "ypan agosto quichihuasque quitequipanosque yn necuitil".
> It sounds me like "commitment", do yo have any other idea?
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> Namechtlazohcamati
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> Tomas Amaya
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