tlahueliloc

[Frances Karttunen]

on 6/24/04 3:01 PM, rick dosan at rich_photos at YAHOO.COM wrote:

> Does anyone have an idea about the root of the word tlahueliloc?

Not every initial tla- in Nahuatl is a prefix.  In this case, it's part of
the stem: tlahue:l-

Tlahue:lli is 'rage, indignation."

Tlahue:lia: is a transitive verb meaning to become angry at someone, so it
takes the human object prefix te:-. Te:tlahue:liztli would be generalized
irascibility.

Tlahue:lilo:c (tlahue:lilo:ca-) means someone enraged or malicious. (Because
it's formed on the nonactive stem, it doesn't have the te:- object prefix.)

Joe Campbell can provide lots of citations.