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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>In reply to Alec Christensen's query:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=3>"The most common male name so far is Cuixtli, which
I assume is a variant of <BR>cuixin, hawk. Looking through Lastra's Areas
Dialectales, I cannot find any <BR>modern dialect that uses a related form;
those that have forms of cuix- use <BR>-in, not -tli. I am wondering if the -tli
form is the product of non-native <BR>Nahuatl speakers regularizing a
non-standard noun. Has anyone else found <BR>cuixtli rather than
cuixin?"</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=3>Hi, Alec; it's good to see your work with
the Mixquiahuala records is progressing.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=3>The following entry is from Simeon's
dictionary:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=3>"cuixin o cuiztli (Aub.), s. Milano. R.
cui."</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=3>Milano is indeed "hawk". "Aub." refers to Aubin's
Memoire sur la peinture didactique et l'ecriture figurative des anciens
mexicains (Paris, Paul Dupont, 1851); I don't have a copy of this source on
hand, so that's as far as I can take this.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=3>Suerte,<BR></DIV></FONT>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=3>David
Wright<BR></FONT></DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>