The use of XIHUIT

[Anthony Appleyard]

  Anthony Appleyard wrote:-
> Erh??? Blue may mean hot to an astronomer, or to nuclear men handling very
> high-temperature plasma, or to people who use blowtorches, but not to the
> general population of an area where Nahuatl is likely to be spoken. {chi} is
> so simple and short a morpheme that most likely we have a stray coincidence.

I later realized that to a general population not familiar with modern tools
etc, one possible connection between heat and blueness might be that when the
sky is blue the uninterrupted sunlight will make the weather hot.