A few words

[Fernando Pérez]

Hello,

About the word Cactli (shoe), listen to Launey :P  In most modern variants
of Nahuatl, they say "cactli" for "shoe". My teachers are native, and they
do use the word in class and out of class (when I listen to them speaking to
each other).




On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 6:56 PM, <lahunik.62 at skynet.be> wrote:

>  ·     *Pitzahua,*
>
> *John Sullivan in his Modern Vocabulary translated this as: to give
> change.*
>
> *Molina speaks of: emmagrecerse.*
>
> *Karttunen: to get thin*
>
> *Zan niman tlalli ixco hualpitzahuatiuh ixiuhyo, its foliage come out
> slender, just on the surface of the ground, is said of the plant
> Tzatzayanalquiltic, Sah.II.162.*
>
> ·     *Chapolin,*
>
> *Grasshopper or cricket?*
>
> *The grasshopper (Gryllus devastator). Like the Latin name says a very
> devastating insect.*
>
> *The cricket (Gryllus campestris). An insect of the night. The male one
> makes that typical sound which Sahagun probably mentioned in his 11th Book
> pag 250. Spring at Chapoltepec. Is it possible that a town like Chapoltepec
> was found on a mountain full of devastating grasshoppers?*
>
> *The glyph of Chapoltepec shows a Gryllus, but is it the devastator or the
> campestris?*
>
> ·     *Cactli, shoe (Launey).*
>
> *Except Launey no one seems to have a Nahuatl word for shoe.*
>
> *It is not mentioned in Sullivan's Vocabulary, nor in that of John
> Bierhorst *
>
> *Lahun Ik 62*
>
> *Baert Georges*
>
> *Flanders** Fields*
>
>
>
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Fernando Pérez Peña
Lic. en Idiomas - Traductor
Inglés, Francés, Alemán, Japonés, Náhuatl, Italiano - Español
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