Mezquite

[Michael McCafferty]

Nahuatl mizquitl is regular in the way it was borrowed into Spanish 
with final -ite ending.

Seems to me that mizquitl has nothing to do with me:tzli, because of 
the vowel length discrepancy between /i/ and /e:/.

I haven't checked Joe, but mizqu(i)- seems to be a morpheme all of its 
own...unless this is mi:ztli + quilitl, and the quilitl has been 
shortened. (The Proto-Algonquian term for 'dogwood tree' translates to 
'cat wood'.)

Michael



Quoting chelo dona <chelodona at hotmail.com>:

>
> Es muy interesante!
>
> Toda madera resulta de diferente duración y calidad según la luna en
> que se corte, por lo que tengo entendido esto se debe a la cantidad
> de agua que tiene en ese momento. Del mismo modo no da el mismo
> resultado cortarse el pelo o las uñas, o sembrar en distintas lunas.
>
>
>
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