quetzalteueyac

[Michael Mccafferty]

I don't know offhand, but this looks like <quetzaltehueyac>.



On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Frances Karttunen wrote:

> I would be cautious about analyzing this as quetzal- plus transitive tehuia
> 'to strike something [in this case the quetzal] with stones.'  Not only do
> you find -tehue- rather than -tehui- in this name, but you find -ac at the
> end, not the preterite form one would get with a class 3 -ia verb used as an
> attributive.
>
> I would like to read this as 'he has caused people to rise up in the manner
> of quetzal plumage.'  But alas, the -ehuac preterite form of the verb ehua
> is the intransitive form.  If we were to read it as "he has risen up in the
> manner of quetzal plumage,' then I can't account for the internal -t-.
>
> Does anyone else have a solution to this?
>
> Fran
>
> ----------
> >From: SANCHEZ JOANNA M <js9211 at csc.albany.edu>
> >Subject: quetzalteueyac
> >Date: Tue, Feb 27, 2001, 11:15 AM
> >
>
> > I am wondering what people think about the name "queztalteueac"
> > as I am analyzing the Historia T-C.
> > Specifically, what would be the sense imparted by 'tehuia' in this
> > construction given the role of this figure in the emergence from
> > Chicomoztoc? Thanks. Joanna Sanchez
> >
> >
>
>


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