cuaxochtli

[Yukitaka Inoue Okubo]

Anthony and Joe:

Thank you for your comments.
The problem is that I don't understand exactly what cuaxochtli means. That 
is, if it is a some kind of clear border"line",or places with certain 
extention of surface(for example, a hill or mountain). This question made me 
to start thinking of the possibility of a compound.
Any way, I will check if "head" and "flower" could have semantic relation, 
or not, with land border (or land itself).

Yukitaka Inoue O.




> --- Yukitaka Inoue Okubo <takaio at PO.AIANET.NE.JP> wrote:
>> Hello. Could anyone help me with the etymology of `cuaxochtli'
>> (land border, lindero)? Does it have something to do
>> with "cuaitl" and/or "xochitl"? In some colonial documents I'm
>> reading, I've also seen the form "cuaxochitli" instead ...
>
> Uhh. `It-is-a-head-flower'. Was there a custom somewhere, of planting
> flowering bushes to mark land borders?
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> Citlalyani
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