A few words

[Michael McCafferty]

Quoting John Sullivan <idiez at me.com>:

> Piyali Baert,
> 	First of all the dictionary I made available has only about 1000 of
> the 7000 headwords that are in our dictionary. The full list will be
> available by the end of this next school year.
> 	In Modern Huastecan Nahuatl shoe is "tecactli", my shoe, "notecac".
> 	Michael, yes the language has evolved over the years (centuries),
> but not that much:
> pitzahuac, "a tree or stick with a thin diameter", or "change
> (money), vs canactzin, "s.t. thin (except trees and sticks)"
> nicpitzahua tomin, "I break the money into smaller denominations"
> nimitzpitzahuilia tomin, "I break the money into smaller
> denominations for you (I give you change).
> 	I don't think there is much difference between a tree that
> (grammatically) has become thin, and money that has become thin.

Good points, John. And I agree wholeheartedly on these forms and 
meanings (although I'd say we could have a hearty discussion about how 
much the language has changed in 500 years. :-)

What I meant to refer to was the *abstract* meaning it had acquired in 
the modern language rather than the literal meaning. When you break a 
ten dollar bill, the ten dollar bill in your hand isn't divided into 
smaller parts. That's what I was talking about, albeit unclearly.

Michael

> John
>
> On 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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