From schwallr at potsdam.edu Sun Feb 2 19:31:42 2014 From: schwallr at potsdam.edu (John F. Schwaller) Date: Sun, 2 Feb 2014 14:31:42 -0500 Subject: ANN: Nahuatl meetings in London Message-ID: FROM: olga.jimenez at sas.ac.uk Date: Sun, Feb. 2, 2014 February 7-8 Speaking and Writing Aztec (Nahuatl); The First London Nahuatl Study Day and Workshops Friday 7th – Chancellor’s Hall, Senate House 17:30 18:00 Registration 18:00-18-05 Welcome address by Professor Linda Newson, Director of ILAS 18:05-18:20 Introduction and Aims of the Workshop by Dr. Elizabeth Baquedano, UCL Institute of Archaeology 18:20-19:20 Inaugural Lecture “The Unconquered Nahuatl Language” Dr. Patrick Johansson (Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas. National University of Mexico) Saturday 8th – Deller Hall, Senate House 9:30-10:00 Registration 10:00 -10:10 Welcome and Introduction 10:10-11: 15 Writing in Images. Dr. Elizabeth Baquedano, UCL Institute of Archaeology 11:00-11:45 Coffee Break 11:45-1:00 Introductory Level Workshop on Aztec Pictorial Writing. Dr. Elizabeth Baquedano 1:00-2:30 Lunch Break 2:30- 3:30 Introduction to the Nahuatl Language. Dr. Patrick Johansson, Institute de Investigaciones Históricas, National University of Mexico 3:30-4:00 Tea Break 4:00-5:00 Introductory Level Workshop to the Nahuatl (Aztec) Language. Dr. Patrick Johansson 5:00-5:30 Closing Address The lecture is free and open to all. To attend please RSVP to olga.jimenez at sas.ac.uk The Study Day requires registration: £15 students/unwaged- £20 standard (Fee doesn’t include lunch) Senate House, Malet Street, London, England http://ilas.sas.ac.uk/ _______________________________________________ Nahuatl mailing list Nahuatl at lists.famsi.org http://www.famsi.org/mailman/listinfo/nahuatl From maffiej at umd.edu Mon Feb 3 00:44:45 2014 From: maffiej at umd.edu (James Maffie) Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2014 00:44:45 +0000 Subject: 2014 Nahuatl Workshop schedule In-Reply-To: <3F44636FB6D68347868319FF6E6BD5773160EC54@OITMX1005.AD.UMD.EDU> Message-ID: The Latin American Studies Center of the University of Maryland, College Park, is happy to announce the third Nahua Studies Workshop, March 7-8, 2014. This interdisciplinary workshop explores current research on pre-contact, colonial, and contemporary Nahua studies. The meeting will take place in the multipurpose room of St. Mary's Hall on the UMD College Park campus. Attendance is free and open to the public. No registration is required. Campus maps are available on-line on the UMD website. Plenty of public parking is available although not free-of-charge. The workshop program is as follows: Nahuatl Workshop #3 Recent Work in Nahua Studies Multi-purpose Room, St. Mary's Hall University of Maryland, College Park Friday, March 7 - Saturday, March 8, 2014 Schedule Friday, March 7 3:00 pm John Millhauser, "Salt, soda, and saltpeter: ephemeral goods, ambiguous language, and the challenge of studying of Aztec commodity chains." 3:30 pm Janice Robertson, “On the Workings of the Codex Mendoza's Place-Name Signs: Decolonizing Aztec Picture-Writing.” 4:00 pm Jerome Offner, “Cognitive Landscapes in the Codex Xolotl: Reading an Authentic Nahua(tl)Text.” 4:30 pm Comment, Ralph Bauer Saturday, March 8 8:45 am Breakfast 9:15 am Pete Sigal, "Queering and Querying Nahuas: From Bernardino de Sahagún to La Otra Conquista." 9:45 am John F. Schwaller, “The Mexican Marathon: Running as a Feature of Pre-Columbian Ritual.” 10:15 am Comment, Juan Daneri 10:30 am Break 10:45 am Willard Gingerich, "Verse-Phrase Structure of Oral Poetics in a few Nahuatl Texts." 11:15 am Ann De Léon, "A reflection on the representation and enactment of Aztec warfare in popular cultural artifacts." 11:45 am Comment, Alan Sandstrom 12:30 pm Lunch All inquires should be direct to Jim Maffie at maffiej at umd.edu _______________________________________________ Nahuatl mailing list Nahuatl at lists.famsi.org http://www.famsi.org/mailman/listinfo/nahuatl From schwallr at potsdam.edu Wed Feb 5 14:05:37 2014 From: schwallr at potsdam.edu (John F. Schwaller) Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2014 09:05:37 -0500 Subject: 2014 Maryland Nahuatl Workshop schedule Message-ID: From: James Maffie Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2014 9:04 AM The Latin American Studies Center of the University of Maryland, College Park, is happy to announce the third Nahua Studies Workshop, March 7-8, 2014. This interdisciplinary workshop explores current research on pre-contact, colonial, and contemporary Nahua studies. The meeting will take place in the multipurpose room of St. Mary's Hall on the UMD College Park campus. Attendance is free and open to the public. No registration is required. Campus maps are available on-line on the UMD website. Plenty of public parking is available although not free-of-charge. The workshop program is as follows: Nahuatl Workshop #3 Recent Work in Nahua Studies Multi-purpose Room, St. Mary's Hall University of Maryland, College Park Friday, March 7 - Saturday, March 8, 2014 Schedule Friday, March 7 3:00 pm John Millhauser, "Salt, soda, and saltpeter: ephemeral goods, ambiguous language, and the challenge of studying of Aztec commodity chains." 3:30 pm Janice Robertson, “On the Workings of the Codex Mendoza's Place-Name Signs: Decolonizing Aztec Picture-Writing.” 4:00 pm Jerome Offner, “Cognitive Landscapes in the Codex Xolotl: Reading an Authentic Nahua(tl)Text.” 4:30 pm Comment, Ralph Bauer Saturday, March 8 8:45 am Breakfast 9:15 am Pete Sigal, "Queering and Querying Nahuas: From Bernardino de Sahagún to La Otra Conquista." 9:45 am John F. Schwaller, “The Mexican Marathon: Running as a Feature of Pre-Columbian Ritual.” 10:15 am Comment, Juan Daneri 10:30 am Break 10:45 am Willard Gingerich, "Verse-Phrase Structure of Oral Poetics in a few Nahuatl Texts." 11:15 am Ann De Léon, "A reflection on the representation and enactment of Aztec warfare in popular cultural artifacts." 11:45 am Comment, Alan Sandstrom 12:30 pm Lunch All inquires should be direct to Jim Maffie at maffiej at umd.edu _______________________________________________ Nahuatl mailing list Nahuatl at lists.famsi.org http://www.famsi.org/mailman/listinfo/nahuatl From jfschwaller at gmail.com Sun Feb 16 19:30:01 2014 From: jfschwaller at gmail.com (John Schwaller) Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2014 14:30:01 -0500 Subject: Deadline for proposals - Northeastern Nahuatl conference Message-ID: The deadline for proposals for papers and documents for study at the Northeastern Nahuatl meetings in Yale is March 14. The meetings will be held May 9 & 10, 2014. This year we are looking into the possibility of publishing selected papers initiating an on-going publication series. Proposals may be for either scholarly papers or document translations. As with past meetings, the conference will include two activities. Papers may be on any aspect of the Nahuatl language and linguistics, Nahuatl texts, or Nahua ethnohistory, from pre-contact up to the modern era. Scholars interested in offering a paper should contact the organizers for inclusion. Persons working with Nahuatl documents are encouraged to share them at the conference. In the document sessions all participants work collectively on the translation. Please contact the organizers if you wish to present a document for study, to make arrangements for its distribution prior to the meeting. Please consider joining us in this exciting weekend, with a document for study or simply by attending. Proposals for papers or documents for group translation may be sent to jfschwaller at gmail.com or any of the organizers. The organizers include: Caterina Pizzigoni (cp2313 at columbia.edu) John Sullivan (idiez at me.com) Louise Burkhart (burk at albany.edu) John F. Schwaller (jschwaller at albany.edu) -- John F. Schwaller Professor, University at Albany 1400 Washington Ave. Albany NY 12222 jfschwaller at gmail.com 518-608-4522 _______________________________________________ Nahuatl mailing list Nahuatl at lists.famsi.org http://www.famsi.org/mailman/listinfo/nahuatl From idiez at me.com Mon Feb 17 02:54:05 2014 From: idiez at me.com (John Sullivan) Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2014 18:54:05 -0800 Subject: lalaxa Message-ID: Notequixpoyohuan, I have a note in my dictionary that the words for the orange fruit in the Huasteca, alaxox (Veracruz) and lalax (San Luis Potosí), come from a foreign word, “lalaxa”, but I can´t remember where I found this reference or what language it comes from. Anybody know? John _______________________________________________ Nahuatl mailing list Nahuatl at lists.famsi.org http://www.famsi.org/mailman/listinfo/nahuatl From mmccaffe at indiana.edu Mon Feb 17 13:53:28 2014 From: mmccaffe at indiana.edu (Michael McCafferty) Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 08:53:28 -0500 Subject: lalaxa In-Reply-To: <510A9BBF-BA28-457B-A120-CC9F288F96D0@me.com> Message-ID: Quoting John Sullivan : > Notequixpoyohuan, > I have a note in my dictionary that the words for the orange fruit > in the Huasteca, alaxox (Veracruz) and lalax (San Luis Potosí), come > from a foreign word, "lalaxa", but I can´t remember where I found > this reference or what language it comes from. Anybody know? > John > _______________________________________________ > Nahuatl mailing list > Nahuatl at lists.famsi.org > http://www.famsi.org/mailman/listinfo/nahuatl > John, It doesn't come from alaxoa: ? Michael _______________________________________________ Nahuatl mailing list Nahuatl at lists.famsi.org http://www.famsi.org/mailman/listinfo/nahuatl From magnuspharao at gmail.com Mon Feb 17 18:20:53 2014 From: magnuspharao at gmail.com (Magnus Pharao Hansen) Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 12:20:53 -0600 Subject: Nahuatl Digest, Vol 325, Issue 1 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: It comes from old Spanish/Portuguese laranxa meaning orange. On 17 February 2014 12:00, wrote: > Send Nahuatl mailing list submissions to > nahuatl at lists.famsi.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://www.famsi.org/mailman/listinfo/nahuatl > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > nahuatl-request at lists.famsi.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > nahuatl-owner at lists.famsi.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Nahuatl digest..." > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Deadline for proposals - Northeastern Nahuatl conference > (John Schwaller) > 2. lalaxa (John Sullivan) > 3. Re: lalaxa (Michael McCafferty) > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: John Schwaller > To: nahuatl at lists.famsi.org > Cc: > Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2014 14:30:01 -0500 > Subject: [Nahuat-l] Deadline for proposals - Northeastern Nahuatl > conference > The deadline for proposals for papers and documents for study at the > Northeastern Nahuatl meetings in Yale is March 14. The meetings will be > held May 9 & 10, 2014. This year we are looking into the possibility of > publishing selected papers initiating an on-going publication series. > > > > Proposals may be for either scholarly papers or document translations. As > with past meetings, the conference will include two activities. Papers may > be on any aspect of the Nahuatl language and linguistics, Nahuatl texts, or > Nahua ethnohistory, from pre-contact up to the modern era. Scholars > interested in offering a paper should contact the organizers for inclusion. > > > > Persons working with Nahuatl documents are encouraged to share them at the > conference. In the document sessions all participants work collectively on > the translation. Please contact the organizers if you wish to present a > document for study, to make arrangements for its distribution prior to the > meeting. > > > > Please consider joining us in this exciting weekend, with a document for > study or simply by attending. > > > > Proposals for papers or documents for group translation may be sent to > jfschwaller at gmail.com or any of the organizers. > > > > The organizers include: > > Caterina Pizzigoni (cp2313 at columbia.edu) > > John Sullivan (idiez at me.com) > > Louise Burkhart (burk at albany.edu) > > John F. Schwaller (jschwaller at albany.edu) > > > -- > John F. Schwaller > Professor, > University at Albany > 1400 Washington Ave. > Albany NY 12222 > > jfschwaller at gmail.com > 518-608-4522 > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: John Sullivan > To: list nahuatl discussion > Cc: > Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2014 18:54:05 -0800 > Subject: [Nahuat-l] lalaxa > Notequixpoyohuan, > I have a note in my dictionary that the words for the orange fruit > in the Huasteca, alaxox (Veracruz) and lalax (San Luis Potosí), come from a > foreign word, “lalaxa”, but I can´t remember where I found this reference > or what language it comes from. Anybody know? > John > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Michael McCafferty > To: nahuatl at lists.famsi.org > Cc: > Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 08:53:28 -0500 > Subject: Re: [Nahuat-l] lalaxa > Quoting John Sullivan : > > Notequixpoyohuan, >> I have a note in my dictionary that the words for the orange fruit >> in the Huasteca, alaxox (Veracruz) and lalax (San Luis Potosí), come >> from a foreign word, "lalaxa", but I can´t remember where I found >> this reference or what language it comes from. Anybody know? >> John >> _______________________________________________ >> Nahuatl mailing list >> Nahuatl at lists.famsi.org >> http://www.famsi.org/mailman/listinfo/nahuatl >> >> > John, > > It doesn't come from alaxoa: ? > > > Michael > > > > _______________________________________________ > Nahuatl mailing list > Nahuatl at lists.famsi.org > http://www.famsi.org/mailman/listinfo/nahuatl > > -- Magnus Pharao Hansen PhD. candidate Department of Anthropology Brown University 128 Hope St. Providence, RI 02906 *magnus_pharao_hansen at brown.edu * US: 001 401 651 8413 _______________________________________________ Nahuatl mailing list Nahuatl at lists.famsi.org http://www.famsi.org/mailman/listinfo/nahuatl From a.appleyard at btinternet.com Mon Feb 17 21:08:36 2014 From: a.appleyard at btinternet.com (BT Yahoo!) Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 21:08:36 +0000 Subject: Nahuatl Digest, Vol 325, Issue 1 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Magnus Pharao Hansen wrote:- > It comes from old Spanish/Portuguese laranxa meaning orange. Which in turn came via Arabic na_ranj  from Sanskrit na_ranga-. _______________________________________________ Nahuatl mailing list Nahuatl at lists.famsi.org http://www.famsi.org/mailman/listinfo/nahuatl From schwallr at potsdam.edu Sun Feb 2 19:31:42 2014 From: schwallr at potsdam.edu (John F. Schwaller) Date: Sun, 2 Feb 2014 14:31:42 -0500 Subject: ANN: Nahuatl meetings in London Message-ID: FROM: olga.jimenez at sas.ac.uk Date: Sun, Feb. 2, 2014 February 7-8 Speaking and Writing Aztec (Nahuatl); The First London Nahuatl Study Day and Workshops Friday 7th ? Chancellor?s Hall, Senate House 17:30 18:00 Registration 18:00-18-05 Welcome address by Professor Linda Newson, Director of ILAS 18:05-18:20 Introduction and Aims of the Workshop by Dr. Elizabeth Baquedano, UCL Institute of Archaeology 18:20-19:20 Inaugural Lecture ?The Unconquered Nahuatl Language? Dr. Patrick Johansson (Instituto de Investigaciones Hist?ricas. National University of Mexico) Saturday 8th ? Deller Hall, Senate House 9:30-10:00 Registration 10:00 -10:10 Welcome and Introduction 10:10-11: 15 Writing in Images. Dr. Elizabeth Baquedano, UCL Institute of Archaeology 11:00-11:45 Coffee Break 11:45-1:00 Introductory Level Workshop on Aztec Pictorial Writing. Dr. Elizabeth Baquedano 1:00-2:30 Lunch Break 2:30- 3:30 Introduction to the Nahuatl Language. Dr. Patrick Johansson, Institute de Investigaciones Hist?ricas, National University of Mexico 3:30-4:00 Tea Break 4:00-5:00 Introductory Level Workshop to the Nahuatl (Aztec) Language. Dr. Patrick Johansson 5:00-5:30 Closing Address The lecture is free and open to all. To attend please RSVP to olga.jimenez at sas.ac.uk The Study Day requires registration: ?15 students/unwaged- ?20 standard (Fee doesn?t include lunch) Senate House, Malet Street, London, England http://ilas.sas.ac.uk/ _______________________________________________ Nahuatl mailing list Nahuatl at lists.famsi.org http://www.famsi.org/mailman/listinfo/nahuatl From maffiej at umd.edu Mon Feb 3 00:44:45 2014 From: maffiej at umd.edu (James Maffie) Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2014 00:44:45 +0000 Subject: 2014 Nahuatl Workshop schedule In-Reply-To: <3F44636FB6D68347868319FF6E6BD5773160EC54@OITMX1005.AD.UMD.EDU> Message-ID: The Latin American Studies Center of the University of Maryland, College Park, is happy to announce the third Nahua Studies Workshop, March 7-8, 2014. This interdisciplinary workshop explores current research on pre-contact, colonial, and contemporary Nahua studies. The meeting will take place in the multipurpose room of St. Mary's Hall on the UMD College Park campus. Attendance is free and open to the public. No registration is required. Campus maps are available on-line on the UMD website. Plenty of public parking is available although not free-of-charge. The workshop program is as follows: Nahuatl Workshop #3 Recent Work in Nahua Studies Multi-purpose Room, St. Mary's Hall University of Maryland, College Park Friday, March 7 - Saturday, March 8, 2014 Schedule Friday, March 7 3:00 pm John Millhauser, "Salt, soda, and saltpeter: ephemeral goods, ambiguous language, and the challenge of studying of Aztec commodity chains." 3:30 pm Janice Robertson, ?On the Workings of the Codex Mendoza's Place-Name Signs: Decolonizing Aztec Picture-Writing.? 4:00 pm Jerome Offner, ?Cognitive Landscapes in the Codex Xolotl: Reading an Authentic Nahua(tl)Text.? 4:30 pm Comment, Ralph Bauer Saturday, March 8 8:45 am Breakfast 9:15 am Pete Sigal, "Queering and Querying Nahuas: From Bernardino de Sahag?n to La Otra Conquista." 9:45 am John F. Schwaller, ?The Mexican Marathon: Running as a Feature of Pre-Columbian Ritual.? 10:15 am Comment, Juan Daneri 10:30 am Break 10:45 am Willard Gingerich, "Verse-Phrase Structure of Oral Poetics in a few Nahuatl Texts." 11:15 am Ann De L?on, "A reflection on the representation and enactment of Aztec warfare in popular cultural artifacts." 11:45 am Comment, Alan Sandstrom 12:30 pm Lunch All inquires should be direct to Jim Maffie at maffiej at umd.edu _______________________________________________ Nahuatl mailing list Nahuatl at lists.famsi.org http://www.famsi.org/mailman/listinfo/nahuatl From schwallr at potsdam.edu Wed Feb 5 14:05:37 2014 From: schwallr at potsdam.edu (John F. Schwaller) Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2014 09:05:37 -0500 Subject: 2014 Maryland Nahuatl Workshop schedule Message-ID: From: James Maffie Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2014 9:04 AM The Latin American Studies Center of the University of Maryland, College Park, is happy to announce the third Nahua Studies Workshop, March 7-8, 2014. This interdisciplinary workshop explores current research on pre-contact, colonial, and contemporary Nahua studies. The meeting will take place in the multipurpose room of St. Mary's Hall on the UMD College Park campus. Attendance is free and open to the public. No registration is required. Campus maps are available on-line on the UMD website. Plenty of public parking is available although not free-of-charge. The workshop program is as follows: Nahuatl Workshop #3 Recent Work in Nahua Studies Multi-purpose Room, St. Mary's Hall University of Maryland, College Park Friday, March 7 - Saturday, March 8, 2014 Schedule Friday, March 7 3:00 pm John Millhauser, "Salt, soda, and saltpeter: ephemeral goods, ambiguous language, and the challenge of studying of Aztec commodity chains." 3:30 pm Janice Robertson, ?On the Workings of the Codex Mendoza's Place-Name Signs: Decolonizing Aztec Picture-Writing.? 4:00 pm Jerome Offner, ?Cognitive Landscapes in the Codex Xolotl: Reading an Authentic Nahua(tl)Text.? 4:30 pm Comment, Ralph Bauer Saturday, March 8 8:45 am Breakfast 9:15 am Pete Sigal, "Queering and Querying Nahuas: From Bernardino de Sahag?n to La Otra Conquista." 9:45 am John F. Schwaller, ?The Mexican Marathon: Running as a Feature of Pre-Columbian Ritual.? 10:15 am Comment, Juan Daneri 10:30 am Break 10:45 am Willard Gingerich, "Verse-Phrase Structure of Oral Poetics in a few Nahuatl Texts." 11:15 am Ann De L?on, "A reflection on the representation and enactment of Aztec warfare in popular cultural artifacts." 11:45 am Comment, Alan Sandstrom 12:30 pm Lunch All inquires should be direct to Jim Maffie at maffiej at umd.edu _______________________________________________ Nahuatl mailing list Nahuatl at lists.famsi.org http://www.famsi.org/mailman/listinfo/nahuatl From jfschwaller at gmail.com Sun Feb 16 19:30:01 2014 From: jfschwaller at gmail.com (John Schwaller) Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2014 14:30:01 -0500 Subject: Deadline for proposals - Northeastern Nahuatl conference Message-ID: The deadline for proposals for papers and documents for study at the Northeastern Nahuatl meetings in Yale is March 14. The meetings will be held May 9 & 10, 2014. This year we are looking into the possibility of publishing selected papers initiating an on-going publication series. Proposals may be for either scholarly papers or document translations. As with past meetings, the conference will include two activities. Papers may be on any aspect of the Nahuatl language and linguistics, Nahuatl texts, or Nahua ethnohistory, from pre-contact up to the modern era. Scholars interested in offering a paper should contact the organizers for inclusion. Persons working with Nahuatl documents are encouraged to share them at the conference. In the document sessions all participants work collectively on the translation. Please contact the organizers if you wish to present a document for study, to make arrangements for its distribution prior to the meeting. Please consider joining us in this exciting weekend, with a document for study or simply by attending. Proposals for papers or documents for group translation may be sent to jfschwaller at gmail.com or any of the organizers. The organizers include: Caterina Pizzigoni (cp2313 at columbia.edu) John Sullivan (idiez at me.com) Louise Burkhart (burk at albany.edu) John F. Schwaller (jschwaller at albany.edu) -- John F. Schwaller Professor, University at Albany 1400 Washington Ave. Albany NY 12222 jfschwaller at gmail.com 518-608-4522 _______________________________________________ Nahuatl mailing list Nahuatl at lists.famsi.org http://www.famsi.org/mailman/listinfo/nahuatl From idiez at me.com Mon Feb 17 02:54:05 2014 From: idiez at me.com (John Sullivan) Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2014 18:54:05 -0800 Subject: lalaxa Message-ID: Notequixpoyohuan, I have a note in my dictionary that the words for the orange fruit in the Huasteca, alaxox (Veracruz) and lalax (San Luis Potos?), come from a foreign word, ?lalaxa?, but I can?t remember where I found this reference or what language it comes from. Anybody know? John _______________________________________________ Nahuatl mailing list Nahuatl at lists.famsi.org http://www.famsi.org/mailman/listinfo/nahuatl From mmccaffe at indiana.edu Mon Feb 17 13:53:28 2014 From: mmccaffe at indiana.edu (Michael McCafferty) Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 08:53:28 -0500 Subject: lalaxa In-Reply-To: <510A9BBF-BA28-457B-A120-CC9F288F96D0@me.com> Message-ID: Quoting John Sullivan : > Notequixpoyohuan, > I have a note in my dictionary that the words for the orange fruit > in the Huasteca, alaxox (Veracruz) and lalax (San Luis Potos?), come > from a foreign word, "lalaxa", but I can?t remember where I found > this reference or what language it comes from. Anybody know? > John > _______________________________________________ > Nahuatl mailing list > Nahuatl at lists.famsi.org > http://www.famsi.org/mailman/listinfo/nahuatl > John, It doesn't come from alaxoa: ? Michael _______________________________________________ Nahuatl mailing list Nahuatl at lists.famsi.org http://www.famsi.org/mailman/listinfo/nahuatl From magnuspharao at gmail.com Mon Feb 17 18:20:53 2014 From: magnuspharao at gmail.com (Magnus Pharao Hansen) Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 12:20:53 -0600 Subject: Nahuatl Digest, Vol 325, Issue 1 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: It comes from old Spanish/Portuguese laranxa meaning orange. On 17 February 2014 12:00, wrote: > Send Nahuatl mailing list submissions to > nahuatl at lists.famsi.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://www.famsi.org/mailman/listinfo/nahuatl > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > nahuatl-request at lists.famsi.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > nahuatl-owner at lists.famsi.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Nahuatl digest..." > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Deadline for proposals - Northeastern Nahuatl conference > (John Schwaller) > 2. lalaxa (John Sullivan) > 3. Re: lalaxa (Michael McCafferty) > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: John Schwaller > To: nahuatl at lists.famsi.org > Cc: > Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2014 14:30:01 -0500 > Subject: [Nahuat-l] Deadline for proposals - Northeastern Nahuatl > conference > The deadline for proposals for papers and documents for study at the > Northeastern Nahuatl meetings in Yale is March 14. The meetings will be > held May 9 & 10, 2014. This year we are looking into the possibility of > publishing selected papers initiating an on-going publication series. > > > > Proposals may be for either scholarly papers or document translations. As > with past meetings, the conference will include two activities. Papers may > be on any aspect of the Nahuatl language and linguistics, Nahuatl texts, or > Nahua ethnohistory, from pre-contact up to the modern era. Scholars > interested in offering a paper should contact the organizers for inclusion. > > > > Persons working with Nahuatl documents are encouraged to share them at the > conference. In the document sessions all participants work collectively on > the translation. Please contact the organizers if you wish to present a > document for study, to make arrangements for its distribution prior to the > meeting. > > > > Please consider joining us in this exciting weekend, with a document for > study or simply by attending. > > > > Proposals for papers or documents for group translation may be sent to > jfschwaller at gmail.com or any of the organizers. > > > > The organizers include: > > Caterina Pizzigoni (cp2313 at columbia.edu) > > John Sullivan (idiez at me.com) > > Louise Burkhart (burk at albany.edu) > > John F. Schwaller (jschwaller at albany.edu) > > > -- > John F. Schwaller > Professor, > University at Albany > 1400 Washington Ave. > Albany NY 12222 > > jfschwaller at gmail.com > 518-608-4522 > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: John Sullivan > To: list nahuatl discussion > Cc: > Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2014 18:54:05 -0800 > Subject: [Nahuat-l] lalaxa > Notequixpoyohuan, > I have a note in my dictionary that the words for the orange fruit > in the Huasteca, alaxox (Veracruz) and lalax (San Luis Potos?), come from a > foreign word, ?lalaxa?, but I can?t remember where I found this reference > or what language it comes from. Anybody know? > John > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Michael McCafferty > To: nahuatl at lists.famsi.org > Cc: > Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 08:53:28 -0500 > Subject: Re: [Nahuat-l] lalaxa > Quoting John Sullivan : > > Notequixpoyohuan, >> I have a note in my dictionary that the words for the orange fruit >> in the Huasteca, alaxox (Veracruz) and lalax (San Luis Potos?), come >> from a foreign word, "lalaxa", but I can?t remember where I found >> this reference or what language it comes from. Anybody know? >> John >> _______________________________________________ >> Nahuatl mailing list >> Nahuatl at lists.famsi.org >> http://www.famsi.org/mailman/listinfo/nahuatl >> >> > John, > > It doesn't come from alaxoa: ? > > > Michael > > > > _______________________________________________ > Nahuatl mailing list > Nahuatl at lists.famsi.org > http://www.famsi.org/mailman/listinfo/nahuatl > > -- Magnus Pharao Hansen PhD. candidate Department of Anthropology Brown University 128 Hope St. Providence, RI 02906 *magnus_pharao_hansen at brown.edu * US: 001 401 651 8413 _______________________________________________ Nahuatl mailing list Nahuatl at lists.famsi.org http://www.famsi.org/mailman/listinfo/nahuatl From a.appleyard at btinternet.com Mon Feb 17 21:08:36 2014 From: a.appleyard at btinternet.com (BT Yahoo!) Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 21:08:36 +0000 Subject: Nahuatl Digest, Vol 325, Issue 1 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Magnus Pharao Hansen wrote:- > It comes from old Spanish/Portuguese laranxa meaning orange. Which in turn came via Arabic na_ranj? from Sanskrit na_ranga-. _______________________________________________ Nahuatl mailing list Nahuatl at lists.famsi.org http://www.famsi.org/mailman/listinfo/nahuatl