Tenoch

Accounts Clerk rcoleman at library.uwa.edu.au
Thu Jun 24 06:45:28 UTC 1999


Wouldn't "citizen of Tenochtitlan" be rendered something like Tenochcatl
rather than Tenoch?

Tenoch is the stem of the compound  noun tenoch-tli which means hard fruit
of the prickly pear cactus.
Literally, tenoch would mean "hard nopal fruit" and tenochca-tl would be the
inhabitant of "the hard nopal fruit".

Tenoch-tli = te-tl (rock, sense of hardness); noch-tli (fruit of the
nohpal-li); Ca-tl= the gentile noun indicating dweller, inhabitant.



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