Query: cuilote

Brian Stross bstross at MAIL.UTEXAS.EDU
Sun Nov 23 18:17:56 UTC 2003


>> An interview he did recently with a
>> 100-year-old man in Ozumba. At one point, his informant states that he
"built
>> a
>> house of zacate and cuilote."

Cuilote is a  'stick'  (palo or vara) and probably comes from the similar
sounding word in Nahuatl  (kwilo:tl) meaning 'stick'.   Such sticks are
used in roofing a thatch house.



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