Fwd: Posting to list re cuacha

[John F. Schwaller]

Date: Sat, 29 May 2004 16:42:46 -0500
From: Karen Dakin <karendakin at PRODIGY.NET.MX>
Subject: Posting to list re cuacha


>Is it
>possible to post the message below?  Thanks very much.
>Karen Dakin
>
>
>Just to add a bit to the discussion -- I checked Pablo Velasquez
>Gallardo's
>Diccionario de la lengua phorhepecha, (Tarascan)  published in 1978 by the
>Fondo de Cultura
>Economica in Mexico, and found the following:
>
>kuatsita.. Excremento.
>
>kuatsinda.  Resina del tronco seco de pino.
>kuatsingatarakua icherir. Bacinica de barro.
>kuatsintani. Cuando el polen del maiz se ha caido.
>kuatsirakua. Ano
>kuatsitakua. Copal (Elaphritum jorullense H.B.K.).
>kuatsitas kamatarhu anapu. Epazote (Chenopodium ambrosioides L. Planta
>medicinal).
>kuatsites iojkurha. Epazote (Chenopodium ambrosioides L. Planta
>medicinal).
>
>A Phorhepecha specialist would have to analyze the morphology, but at least
>it looks initially as though kuatsita could be the source of 'cuacha'.
>
>Karen Dakin
>