Color questions

[Michael Mccafferty]

Does anyone know the reconstructed form for red in proto-Uto-Aztecan.

Were the ancestors of the Nahuatl-speaking groups agricultural folks
before they landed in the Valley of Mexico.

Was chihchiltic their word for red when they were pre-agricultural.


It only stands to reason that  an agricultural people would use the name
for an important, red food for their word for red. The proto-Algonquian
term for blood mec,kwi- became the term for red in most of the descendant
languages of these hunting people.


Michael
On Tue, 14 Dec 1999, David L. Frye wrote:

> First, here is my chicken-and-egg question: I assume that there is a close
> relation between "chihchiltic" red and "chilli" chile (pepper), but which
> came first?
>
> Second, here is my list of Nahuatl links, with the caveat that I have not
> checked out all of them recently. (Please don't include the list if you
> reply to the short question above!)
>
>
> John Schwaller's University of Montana Nahuatl home page:
> http://www.umt.edu/history/nahuatl/
>
> Joe Campbell's Tri-dialectical Nahuatl vocabulary:
> http://www.umt.edu/history/nahuatl/multidia.htm
>
> A preliminary version of a dictionary of Ameyaltepec Nahuatl is posted at
> http://www.yale.edu/nahuatl (click on Dictionary)
>
> An excellent Prehispanic Calendars site:
> http://www.public.iastate.edu/~rjsalvad/scmfaq/calendar.html
>
> The Aztec calendar pages:
> http://www.xs4all.nl/~voorburg/aztec.html.
>
> "Check out our site to see what modern day Mexica are up to":
> http://www.mexica-movement.org
>
> Tezozomoc's Nahuatl Home page:
> http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Studios/4325/nahuatl.html
> New pages relating to nahua spirituality:
> http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Studios/4325/tloque.html
>
> The University of Pennsylvania Library has a new web page dealing with
> items which might be of interest to scholars of Nahuatl:
>  http://www.library.upenn.edu/special/gallery/kislak/index/cultural.html
>
> The Templo Mayor Museum (INAH) has a new web site (via Arizona State); the
> extensive pages include instructional guides to the Aztec culture and many
> photos useful for Mesoamerican students:
> http://archaeology.la.asu.edu/vm/mesoam/tm/pages2/index2.htm
>
> Tom Fredericksen's "Aztec On-Line Student/Teacher Resource Center":
> http://members.aol.com/spdtom/index.html
>
> David Jordan's Web site has information on Nahuatl pronunciation:
> http://weber.ucsd.edu/~dkjordan/nahuatl.html.
>
> Spanish website for kids, some sections in Nahuatl:
> http://www.kokone.com.mx
>
> Jeff MacSwan's (UCLA, 1997) dissertation,'A Minimalist Approach to
> Intrasentential Code Switching: Spanish-Nahuatl Bilingualism in Central
> Mexico' (.pdf format):
> http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/people/macswan/diss.html
>
> Mole recipe:
> http://www.slip.net/~bobnemo/mole.html
>
> nice site on Nahuatl medicine:
> http://www.mexicodesconocido.com.mx/hierbas/mednahua.htm
>
> The Aztec Student Tearcher Resource Center page at:
> http://members.aol.com/SPDTOM/index.html
>
> The Azteca Web page at:
> http://www.azteca.net/aztec/
>
> The Mesoamerican Archeology Web page at:
> http://copan.bioz.unibas.ch/meso.html
>
> The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Mesoamerica at:
> http://www.cultures.com/meso_resources/meso_encyclopedia/
> meso_encyclopedia_home.html
>


Michael McCafferty
C.E.L.T.
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Indiana University
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mmccaffe at indiana.edu

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