rose flower

[ANTHONY APPLEYARD]

--- Susana Moraleda <susana at losrancheros.org> wrote:
> May I take the opportunity to also ask what is the Nahuatl word for
> the flower "rose"? - Molina says "tlapalpopoco" but I cannot
> understand what is the role of smoke here!
> Thank you a lot. Susana Moraleda

Karttunen's dictionary lists these words:-
- [popo_tl] (plural -meh) = "plant used to make brooms; broom, straw /
escoba"
- [tlapal-li]= "dye, color" (must have an owner?)

But "at the colored broom-like plant" would be [tlapalpopo_c].

Were roses native to Mexico?

Citlalyani.

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