tlanicuilulco, guerrero

[John Sullivan/IDIEZ]

Michael,
	Although relational word roots are sometimes treated as noun roots and stuck on to nouns and verbs, most with an adverbial sense or when multiple-word phrases are reanalyzed and scrunched down into one word, I don’t recall seeing that happen to either the free-standing tlani or the possessed relational -tlan. In this case, tlani or -tlan would be the object of ihcuiloa, and that would really be strange.
John

On Oct 9, 2011, at 2:47 PM, Michael McCafferty wrote:

> Nice, John.
> 
> I gave the word about two seconds of my time and didn't go the further
> step to ihcuilolli, which is why, as I was walking around later
> yesterday afternoon,I suddenly said to myself, "So, with ihcuilolo, how
> do you account for that final -l- in tlanicuilulco, once -lo is lopped
> off ihcuilolo to accept the locative suffix? Doh!--Ihcuilolli."
> 
> 
> As for the tlan- part, homophony is curious phenomenon: tlan(i)
> 'downwards' and tlan(tli) 'tooth'. This is of course at the heart of
> the fun of Nahuatl.
> 
> In light of tlanicahua, tlanihuah, etc., one (meaning nehhuaton) might
> accept tlanihcuiloa with a 'tlani' meaning. But I'm interested in the
> 'tooth' analysis.
> It makes sense.
> 
> 
> Michael
> 
> 
> 
> Quoting John Sullivan/IDIEZ <idiez at me.com>:
> 
>> Piyali notequixpoyohuan,
>> 	This word is made up of the noun tlanihcuilolli and the
>> locative/place-name-maker -co (place of).
>> Now let?s look at tlanihcuilolli. This is a verbal noun that comes
>> from the transitive verb tlanihcuiloa. And tlanihcuiloa comes from
>> tlantli, ?tooth? and ihcuiloa, ?to write, inscribe or paint s.t.? And
>> ihcuiloa ultimately comes from the idea of scratching/engraving, and
>> that may be important here. Anyway, tlantl is the object of ihcuiloa,
>> so tlanihcuiloa mean to engrave, write, inscribe, paint a tooth. When
>> we turn this into a passive action noun, tlantli, originally the
>> object of the verb, becomes the focus of the noun. So tlanihcuilolli
>> is a engraved written, inscribed or painted tooth. Perhaps the
>> scratching thing does have importance here, because we could be
>> talking about a geographic formation within the context of sacred
>> landscape, that looks like a tooth, perhaps a rock formation. So it
>> would seem that tlanihcuilolco would mean, ?place of the engraved,
>> written, inscribed or painted tooth.? Perhaps Juan has some local
>> cultural or geographic information that could help to narrow this
>> down.
>> John
>> 
>> John Sullivan, Ph.D.
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>> 
>> On Oct 8, 2011, at 10:01 AM, Michael McCafferty wrote:
>> 
>>> Quoting juan Vazquez <juanvazquezvaz at aol.com>:
>>> 
>>>> I need help in finding out the meaning of TLANICUILULCO........
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>>> 
>>> Juan,
>>> 
>>> This is a fun word, as it can take you in several directions. It
>>> will be interesting to see what the term means.
>>> 
>>> To me it seems to be composed of the following:
>>> 
>>> tlan(i) 'downwards' + (i)hcuilu:lo: 'it is written, painted' + -co "place".
>>> 
>>> That tlan-, of course, also looks like 'tooth'.
>>> 
>>> Monequi nimitzilhuiz ahmo nicmati inezca inin altepetocaitl.
>>> 
>>> Michael
>>> 
>>> 
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