Altar??

[micc2]

Thanks!

I found "mumuztli in Molina (si los altares de los demonios), but I
could not find anything in Frances" dictionary that looked like this.

I am assuming that since then long o  was  written many times as a "u"
the word was
mo:mo:ztli.


thanks for the quick reply!!!!

r. joe campbell wrote:

>   The Spanish borrowing was certainly used:  altar
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>It also showed up in phrases:
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>    altar iixquen               frontal de altar
>    altar iixtlapachiuhca       frontal de altar
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>Momoztli was also used (small mound, pyramid)
> momozco                        on a mound, on an altar
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>also: tlalmomoztli
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>  (Molina comments that momoztli were placed along the roads;
>   "altar de demonios")
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>Saludos,
>
>Joe
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>On Tue, 14 Sep 2004, micc2 wrote:
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>> ceyo  tlahtlanilli:
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>>In the Huasteca Nahuatlaca  I heard the word "tlaixpan" used for
>>"altar"  I think this means "in front of something'  based on Frances'
>>dictionary.
>>Can anyone please  tell me what the Spanish contact era word for altar was?
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>>tlazohca:mati!!! ....or  for my friends from Tepecxitla, Ver:  tlazcamati!
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>>mario
>>www.mexicayotl.org
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