Xocolotl

[Michael Mccafferty]

I believe that the nahuat-l or AZTLAN archives has an extensive discussion
on the origin of  word "chocolate." This exchange of ideas occurred about
two years ago.

Michael


On Fri, 7 Jul 2000, Asencion Garcia wrote:

>
> --- henry gutierrez <hgutti at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Hi there,
> >
> > Could you help me???
> >
> > I've found the word "Xocolotl", What does it mean??
> > I found "xocolatl" that means "chocolate", but I'm
> > almost sure that mean is wrong
> >
> > thanks a lot!!
> >
> > Henry
>
> =================================================
> Yup, it means Chocolate....It is a stolen word from
> the Nahuat'l language, and is only one of many.
>
> Tamale, Tortilla, Ocelot, etc.....
>
> there are many that are in the English language and
> other languages....I guess Nahuat'l is universal...
>
> Cuitlahuac A. Garcia
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