Huitlacoche or Cuitlacoche

[alexis wimmer]

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De : Frances Karttunen <karttu at nantucket.net>
À : nahuat-l at server2.umt.edu <nahuat-l at server2.umt.edu>
Date : samedi 14 octobre 2000 15:57
Objet : Re: Huitlacoche or Cuitlacoche



>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.
>
>Joe has a list of the -in nouns that occur in Nahuatl.  Maybe he would be
>kind enough to tell us if besides cuitlacoch-in as a bird name there are
>other coch-in compounds.
>


it is an other bird whoose name could perhaps be related to cuitla-coch-in
 ?) : cocho or coch-o :tl, the white-fronted parrot Amazona abifrons.

Alexis.