Re: Meaning of Tenochtitlán

[Accounts Clerk]

G'day


At 10:27 02-03-99 -0700, you wrote:

>
>noch- is nochtli, 'prickly pear cactus'
>

I thought noch-tli meant "the fruit of the nopal cactus". If it meant just
the cactus plant wouldn't the Nahuatl rendering be something like nochnohpal-li?

Russell Coleman
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