Waterfall

[Frances Karttunen]

In the fragmentary pictorial manuscript version of the events of the
conquest in Tlaxcala (U. Texas Benson L.A. Collection), a waterfall glyph is
labeled in alphabetic Nahuatl as "atl ihuetziyan" which means something like
'water, its customary falling place'.

Fran

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>From: Michael Mccafferty <mmccaffe at indiana.edu>
>To: Multiple recipients of list <nahuat-l at server.umt.edu>
>Subject: Re: Waterfall
>Date: Mon, Oct 4, 1999, 2:22 PM
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> Does anyone know the Nahuatl term for 'waterfall'?
>
> Thank you,
>
> Michael McCafferty
>
> mccaffe at indiana.edu
>