One word or two??

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Piyali notequixpoyohuan,
	Normally coztic would be the free form and coztica- would be the combining form. However, this is called into question by Joe's examples. If we say that the form of the fourth example is coztic teocuitlahuah, it would mean that the person is yellow, not the imbedded noun of the -huah agentive.
	There are other instances where adjective/adverbs ending in -c are attached to a noun or verb root without first going back to the older -ca form. One, along the same line here, is chichiltictepozquixtiloyan, incorrectly translated in Molina or Sahagún (Joe can clarify this) as copper miner (it is also possibly incorrectly separated as  chichiltic tepozquixtiloyan, in the original text; again Joe can chime in here). It should be copper mine, and obviously, if we divide it into chichiltic tepozquixtiloyan, it would mean a red iron-mine instead of the preferred red-iron mine.
	There are examples with more commonly used words. I just can`t think of any right now.
John


On Jul 16, 2012, at 6:33 AM, Michael McCafferty wrote:

> 
> Sorry. I should have saved all my thoughts for one message.
> 
> Two words.
> 
> Coztic is really a past tense verb, and you can't tack a verb like that onto the front of a noun.
> 
> Michael
> 
> Quoting "Campbell,  R. Joe" <campbel at indiana.edu>:
> 
>> Nocnihuan,
>> 
>>  I have a simple question: in the following entries from Molina, is
>> "coztic" a separate word or part of the longer word?
>> 
>> Thanks for your "parecer",
>> 
>> Joe
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> cozticteocuitlacohualoni (cozticteocuitlacohualoni).  moneda de oro.
>>    55m-14|
>> 
>> cozticteocuitlacozcapetlatl (cozticteocuitlacozcapetlatl).  collar de
>>   oro; collar ancho de^oro.  55m-3|
>> 
>> cozticteocuitlacozcatl (cozticteocuitlacozcatl).  joya de oro.  71m2-5|
>> 
>> cozticteocuitlahuah (cozticteocuitlahuah).  platero que labra oro.
>>    55m-16|
>> 
>> cozticteocuitlamachiyotl (cozticteocuitlamachiyotl).  quilate de oro.
>>    55m-16|
>> 
>> cozticteocuitlamachiyotia =ni (cozticteocuitlamachiyotia =ni).
>>   quilate dar al oro.  55m-16|
>> 
>> cozticteocuitlamachiyotl (cozticteocuitlamachiyotl) [scribal error:
>>   ??01|printing error: teocuirlamachiyotl for teocuitlamachiyotl:
>>   71m1].  quilate de oro.
>>   71m1-181|
>> 
>> cozticteocuitlamachiyotia =ni (cozticteocuitlamachiyotia =ni).
>>   quilate dar al oro.  71m1-181|
>> 
>> cozticteocuitlaneliuhcayotl (cozticteocuitlaneliuhcayotl).  liga en el
>>   oro; liga enel oro.  55m-12|
>> 
>> cozticteocuitlaoztotl (cozticteocuitlaoztotl).  minero de oro.  55m-14|
>> 
>> cozticteocuitlapitzqui (cozticteocuitlapitzqui).  platero que labra
>>   oro.  55m-16|
>> 
>> cozticteocuitlapopozoquillotl (cozticteocuitlapopozoquillotl).  espuma
>>   de oro; espuma o escoria de oro.  +ly>ll>. 55m-9|
>> 
>> cozticteocuitlaquixtiloyan (cozticteocuitlaquixtiloyan).  minero de
>>   oro. >. 55m-14|
>> 
>> cozticteocuitlatecomatl (cozticteocuitlatecomatl).  vaso de oro.
>>    55m-19|
>> 
>> cozticteocuitlatl (cozticteocuitlatl).  oro.  55m-15|
>> 
>> cozticteocuitlatlaneliuhcayotl (cozticteocuitlatlaneliuhcayotl).  liga
>>   en el oro.  55m-12|
>> 
>> cozticteocuitlatlatemantli (cozticteocuitlatlatemantli).  pieza o
>>   moneda de oro.  55m-16|
>> 
>> cozticteocuitlatlaneliuhcayotl (cozticteocuitlatlaneliuhcayotl).  liga
>>   enel oro.  71m1-141|
>> 
>> cozticteocuitlatlatemantli (cozticteocuitlatlatemantli).  pieza o
>>   moneda de oro; pieza o tejuelo doro.  71m1-171|
>> 
>> cozticteocuitlatomin (cozticteocuitlatomin) [scribal error:
>>   ??01|printing error: taocuitlatomin for teocuitlatomin: 55m].
>>   moneda de oro.  55m-14|
>> 
>> cozticteocuitlatomin (cozticteocuitlatomin).  moneda de oro.  71m1-152|
>> 
>> cozticteocuitlaxaltetl (cozticteocuitlaxaltetl).  grano de oro.
>>    55m-10|
>> 
>> 
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