Fwd: Re: Correction: On *Cuitlaahua and *Cuitlaahuac

Michael McCafferty mmccaffe at indiana.edu
Sun Jun 14 13:46:37 UTC 2009


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    Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2009 09:45:38 -0400
    From: Michael McCafferty <mmccaffe at indiana.edu>
Reply-To: Michael McCafferty <mmccaffe at indiana.edu>
Subject: Re: [Nahuat-l] Correction: On *Cuitlaahua and *Cuitlaahuac
      To: Gordon Whittaker <gwhitta at gwdg.de>

Aya, Gordon,

Always good to hear from you.

The thing is, I don't believe we see (or I believe we don't see :-)
long vowels marked by the Spaniards in this way. If the second part of
Cuitlahua/c is a noun beginning with long /a;/, it would still be
written with just one "a" grapheme.

Al menos, esto es lo que pienso.

nipwaahkaalo,

Michael


Quoting Gordon Whittaker <gwhitta at gwdg.de>:

> Dear list members,
>
> In the last paragraph of my recent posting answering Michael I
> accidentally wrote "Nor is there a single incidence of the place name or
> personal name spelt in alphabetic texts as Cuitlahua or Cuitlahuac, which
> troubles me a bit." I meant, of course, "as Cuitlaahua or Cuitlaahuac".
> Sorry about this oversight.
>
> Gordon
>
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