<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Hello Joost,</div><div><br></div>If you might be interested in seeing what we have in the online Nahuatl Dictionary under "tlatoani" (also with vowel length and glottal stops marked, and other spellings), go here: <a href="http://whp.uoregon.edu/dictionaries/nahuatl/index.lasso">http://whp.uoregon.edu/dictionaries/nahuatl/index.lasso</a><div><br></div><div>What we offer, especially, are attestations of the term as used in colonial documents.<br><div><br></div><div>Best wishes,</div><div>Stephanie Wood<br><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">Joost Kremers <<a href="mailto:joostkremers@fastmail.fm">joostkremers@fastmail.fm</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">February 16, 2011 6:52:41 AM PST<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><a href="mailto:nahuatl@lists.famsi.org">nahuatl@lists.famsi.org</a><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><b>[Nahuat-l] tlahtoani</b><br></span></div><br><div>Hi list,<br><br>The word 'tlahtoani', although a conjugated verb form, usually has the function<br>of a noun with the meaning 'ruler, king'. I was wondering if there is any<br>literature on this phenomenon, either in Nahuatl or in other Native American<br>languages (e.g., the film "Dances With Wolves" is full of them). Does anybody<br>know of any articles etc. published about this? I'd be grateful for any and all<br>hints and suggestions.<br><br>Thanks,<br><br>Joost<br><br><br><br>-- <br>Joost Kremers, PhD<br>University of Göttingen<br>Institute for German Philology<br>Käte-Hamburger-Weg 3<br>37073 Göttingen, Germany<br>Tel. +49 551 39 4467<br>_______________________________________________<br>Nahuatl mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Nahuatl@lists.famsi.org">Nahuatl@lists.famsi.org</a><br>http://www.famsi.org/mailman/listinfo/nahuatl<br><br></div></blockquote></div><br><div>
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