On te:cuhtli and other alleged sins

[Mizton Pixan]

The "Z" in "Tezcatlipoca" should be pronounced /s/.



On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 12:08 PM, Craig Berry <cdberry at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 01:13, Gordon Whittaker<gwhitta at gwdg.de> wrote:
> [snip]
> > and Tezcatlipoca as Tez-kat-LI-po-ka, with the <z> as in English.
>
> I'm a relative novice, so please humor me.  Other than the misplaced
> syllable emphasis, what's wrong with that rendering?  Using informal
> phonetics, I'd render Tezcatlipoca as something like
> "tez-kah-tli-PO-cah", with a secondary stress on the first syllable.
> My 'z' would be as in English.  How wide of the mark am I?
>
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