Huitlacoche or Cuitlacoche

[John F. Schwaller]

At 10:33 AM 10/14/2000 -0400, you wrote:
>>>cuitl(a)-tl - excrement [ and coch(i) - to sleep?]
>
>
>Please note that the query in square brackets is not from the dictionary.
>I am sure that cuitla-coch-in is a compound, and according to Nahuatl
>morphology, the coch-in part is the head of the compound, while cuitla- is a
>modifier, telling one what sort of coch-in, it is.  There is no way I know
>of that the verb cochi could become a noun stem coch-in, nor is there any
>obvious shared sense between the verb cochi 'to sleep' and the proposed head
>noun.


Yes, indeed.  I put my comment in brackets because it was a bit of whimsy
on my part.  Sorry for any confusion it might have caused

Fritz