quetzalteueyac

[Michael Mccafferty]

My apologies to the list for this response. I had not properly read Dr.
Karttunen's message before I sent mine out. Since the list is not
monitored, such trash will occasionally appear.

Michael

On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Michael Mccafferty wrote:

> I don't know offhand, but this looks like <quetzaltehueyac>.
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> On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Frances Karttunen wrote:
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> > 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
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> > >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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Michael McCafferty
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Indiana University
Bloomington, Indiana
47405
mmccaffe at indiana.edu

"There are only two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle."

-Albert Einstein