dragonfly

Richard BUDELBERGER budelberger.richard at wanadoo.fr
Mon Jun 2 19:17:27 UTC 2014


> Message du 02/06/14 14:37
> De : "David Wright" 
> A : "Nahuat-l" 
> Copie à : 
> Objet : Re: [Nahuat-l] dragonfly
> 
> That's an interesting question, Michael. I looked through the bugs in book
> 11 of the Florentine Codex and didn't see any dragonflies.

.CINCOCOPI:
cincocopi: 
1. ~ plante ressemblant au maïs. 
Esp., mayz falso que parece mayz y no lo es. 
Description. Sah11,282. 
Cf. aussi cinteōcocopi. 
2. ~ désigne également la libellule. Sah11,64. 
ahnōzo cincocopi ahnōzo pāpalōtl , ou une libellule ou un papillon - or a dragon-fly, or a butterfly. Sah9,97. 
 
See http://sites.estvideo.net/malinal/c/nahuatlCIHUI.html#CINCOCOPI

> Paul Wolf's
> comprehensive Spanish-Nahuatl dictionary doesn't have an entry for the usual
> Spanish word, libélula, so I won't bother going through the other
> dictionaries. Perhaps the list members who speak Nahuatl as their mother
> tongue can help us out, or perhaps Jonathan Amith, who evidently has spent a
> lot of time learning how to talk about natural things in Nahuatl.
> 
> -----Mensaje original-----
> De: nahuatl-bounces at lists.famsi.org [mailto:nahuatl-bounces at lists.famsi.org]
> En nombre de Michael McCafferty
> Enviado el: lunes, 2 de junio de 2014 06:52 a. m.
> Para: nahuatl at lists.famsi.org
> Asunto: [Nahuat-l] dragonfly
> 
> Can someone send me the term(s) for 'dragonfly'?
> 
> tlaxtlahui
> 
> Michael
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