Tepache

[Frye, David]

Santamaria's Diccionario de mejicanismos derives it "del azt. tepiatl, bebida de maiz," but there is no reason to assume he wasn't just making this up. (For the record, he defines tepache as a "fermented drink prepared from the juice of various plants, especially that of sugar cane and pineapple, with brown sugar or panocha... Also made from pulque, though rarely.... Originally made from maize." Santamaria cites usages as far south as Honduras, but it is basically a Mexican term.)
 
In Barry's example, huino is clearly a Spanish loan word -- is there any reason to assume that tepach isn't a loan word as well? Could tepache have originally been a mangled misunderstanding of a Nahuatl phrase, such as "pulque" is supposed to be?
 
David
 
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Subject: Re: [Nahuat-l] Tepache

Estimados Listeros:

Note that this item shows up on the Nahuatl side of Don Bartolomé de Alva's CONFESSIONARIO of 1634 [see the 1999 Schwaller and Sell critical edition]: p. 93, "tepach"; p. 97, "Cuix titepachtlalia" [meaning, 'Do you sell tepache?']; and p. 121, "in tepachnamacoyan huinonamacoyan" [place(s) where tepache and wine is/are sold]. 

Ye ixquich.
Barry

In a message dated 4/10/07 5:16:34 PM, rcrapo at hass.usu.edu writes:



	How about tepatzi?
	Richley
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	Subject: [Nahuat-l] Tepache
	
	> In a discussion on our sister list (aztlan at lists.famsi.org) the term
	> "tepache" came up.  It is a fermented drink common in Mexico, made
	> with pineapple.  The Real Academia says it is indigenous, but I can't
	> easily see how it might come from Nahuatl
	>
	> Any thoughts?
	>
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