I am citing from Jose Sarmiento's book, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; white-space: nowrap; ">Historia de Olancho 1524-1877,</span> where he quotes the conquistador Cristobal de Pedraza's (1544) report:<div>
<br></div><div>"y capturando tres indios y dos indias les preguntaron por nuestros naguatatos, que quiere decir intérpretes, qué tierra era aquella, respondieron que <i>Tegiusgualpa</i>, que quiere decir in su lengua: casa donde se fundó el oro"</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 10:21 PM, micc2 <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:micc2@cox.net">micc2@cox.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
I have always thought it meant<br>
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tekw-tzin-cal-pan...... Tekwtli-lord, tzin-reverential, small<br>
(indicating a new version of an older site), cal(li) house or building,<br>
pan - on, at, place=<br>
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The new place (or the small) of the lords.<br>
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I live for reasoned, enlightened spirituality:<br>
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"Tlacecelilli", tranquilidad, paz<br>
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Mario E. Aguilar, PhD<br>
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John F. Schwaller wrote:<br>
> In some modern versions of Nahuatl, such as Hueyapan, as I recall,<br>
> intervocalic -k- becomes -g-, which might help to explain the "g", but the<br>
> "zt" of "coztic" to "s", I don't know.<br>
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