first two for Joe

[Campbell, R. Joe]

John,

   Thanks to you and your friends at IDIEZ for helping brainstorm on 
these morphology problems.  The time and energy are appreciated.  
(Actually, that sounds like a Nahuatl impersonal ... and the 
appreciation is not impersonal.)

   Questions and comments:

  1. cuetla:ni comes through as cuetl?ni and there are several other 
"?"s in places that look like ":" was intended.  Could there be a worm 
in your Apple?

  2. Your suggestion about "cue:itl" is very helpful!  I had been hung 
up on considering possibilities like "cuechtli", thinking that 
"cuecuezo" was slightly disguised by a sibilant/affricate cluster 
simplification.  This likely use of reduplicated "cue:itl" is 
consistent with other occurrences in Molina and the Florentine.

  3. Your English equivalents like "what a worm does when you touch 
it", "how a far off object looks when viewed through heat waves", etc., 
sound like sitting in on one of Molina's work sessions and what ended 
up on his folios.

More later,

Joe


>
> Piljotzin,
> 	Here is what the IDIEZ bunch has come up for your first two words.
> 1. cuecuezo, nitla.
> 	a). zo:, "to pierce s.t." is transitive so the "cuecue" element has to
> be adverbial.
> 	b). We didn?t take into account anything built on "cuel",  just "cue"
> 	c) There are a number of words that have what seems to be this "cue"
> element and all share the meaning of "pleating, ondulating". Here they
> are: cue:itl, "skirt"; cuetlaxtic, "withered"; cuetl?ni, "what a worm
> does when you touch it; what a fish does when it?s on land" (goes to
> cuecuetlaca); cuemoni, "how a far off object looks when viewed through
> heat waves" (goes to cuecuemoca).
> 	d). So it seems that cue(h)cuezo: might mean "to puncture s.t.
> repeatedly in a pleated or ondulating fashion", in other words, "to
> stitch s.t."
>

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