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I second the "Wow."<BR>
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Ye ixquich.<BR>
Barry<BR>
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In a message dated 2/20/06 10:01:40 AM, mmccaffe@INDIANA.EDU writes:<BR>
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Quoting "R. Joe Campbell" <campbel@indiana.edu>:<BR>
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> Yukitaka,<BR>
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> Prodded by questions and remarks from my wife (Mary Clayton),<BR>
> I recalled a verb that may be the key to answering part of your<BR>
> cuaxochtli problem.<BR>
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> "xotla" is 'to cut', usually slicing or into strips. "nitlalxotla"<BR>
> is 'amojonar o alindar terminos o eredades' (according to Molina).<BR>
> In Book 5, p. 169 of the Dibble and Anderson edition of the Florentine<BR>
> Codex, "quitlalxochilia" (with the /tl/ palatalized to 'ch') occurs,<BR>
> meaning 'he makes marks on the ground'.<BR>
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> "xoch(tli) is apparently a patientive noun form derived from "xotla".<BR>
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> This palatalization of /tl/ is also seen in "xapochtic", derived from<BR>
> "xapo(tl)-tla", the "-tla" being a transitive verb formative.<BR>
> Molina gives:<BR>
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> nitlaxapotla abrir o horadar pared; agujerear; horadar o romper<BR>
> pared, seto o cosa semejante<BR>
> nitexapotla corromper virgen; desflorar; desuirgar<BR>
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> The patientive noun "tlaxapochtli" is a hole and you even get<BR>
> "ninotlaxopochhuia" 'caer en hoyo. o abarrancarse'.<BR>
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> So "cuaxochtli" is apparently (I withhold the word 'obviously')<BR>
> a slice or division, modified by a "cua-" element. ...and we are left<BR>
> to wonder "where have all the flowers gone?"<BR>
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> Saludos,<BR>
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> Joe<BR>
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