Hello,<br><br>About the word Cactli (shoe), listen to Launey :P In most modern variants of Nahuatl, they say "cactli" for "shoe". My teachers are native, and they do use the word in class and out of class (when I listen to them speaking to each other).<br>
<br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 6:56 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lahunik.62@skynet.be">lahunik.62@skynet.be</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0cm; text-indent: 0cm;"><font color="blue" face="Symbol" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Symbol; color: blue;" lang="EN-US">·<font face="Times New Roman" size="1"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></font></span></font><i><font color="blue"><span style="color: blue; font-style: italic;" lang="EN-US">Pitzahua,</span></font></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><font color="blue" face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: blue; font-style: italic;" lang="EN-US">John Sullivan in his
Modern Vocabulary translated this as: to give change.</span></font></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><font color="blue" face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: blue; font-style: italic;" lang="EN-US">Molina speaks of: emmagrecerse.</span></font></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><font color="blue" face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: blue; font-style: italic;" lang="EN-US">Karttunen: to get thin</span></font></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><font color="blue" face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: blue; font-style: italic;" lang="EN-US">Zan niman tlalli ixco hualpitzahuatiuh
ixiuhyo, its foliage come out slender, just on the surface of the ground, is
said of the plant Tzatzayanalquiltic, Sah.II.162.</span></font></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0cm; text-indent: 0cm;"><font color="blue" face="Symbol" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Symbol; color: blue;" lang="EN-US">·<font face="Times New Roman" size="1"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></font></span></font><i><font color="blue"><span style="color: blue; font-style: italic;" lang="EN-US">Chapolin,</span></font></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><font color="blue" face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: blue; font-style: italic;" lang="EN-US">Grasshopper or cricket?</span></font></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><font color="blue" face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: blue; font-style: italic;" lang="EN-US">The grasshopper (Gryllus
devastator). Like the Latin name says a very devastating insect.</span></font></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><font color="blue" face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: blue; font-style: italic;" lang="EN-US">The cricket (Gryllus campestris).
An insect of the night. The male one makes that typical sound which Sahagun
probably mentioned in his 11<sup>th</sup> Book pag 250. Spring at Chapoltepec.
Is it possible that a town like Chapoltepec was found on a mountain full of
devastating grasshoppers?</span></font></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><font color="blue" face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: blue; font-style: italic;" lang="EN-US">The glyph of Chapoltepec
shows a Gryllus, but is it the devastator or the campestris?</span></font></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0cm; text-indent: 0cm;"><font color="blue" face="Symbol" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Symbol; color: blue;" lang="EN-US">·<font face="Times New Roman" size="1"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></font></span></font><i><font color="blue"><span style="color: blue; font-style: italic;" lang="EN-US">Cactli, shoe (Launey).</span></font></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><font color="blue" face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: blue; font-style: italic;" lang="EN-US">Except Launey no one
seems to have a Nahuatl word for shoe.</span></font></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><font color="blue" face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: blue; font-style: italic;" lang="EN-US">It is not mentioned in
Sullivan's Vocabulary, nor in that of John Bierhorst </span></font></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><font color="blue" face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: blue; font-style: italic;" lang="EN-US">Lahun Ik 62</span></font></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><font color="blue" face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: blue; font-style: italic;" lang="EN-US">Baert Georges</span></font></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><font color="blue" face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: blue; font-style: italic;" lang="EN-US">Flanders</span></font></i><i><font color="blue"><span style="color: blue; font-style: italic;" lang="EN-US"> Fields</span></font></i></p>
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