stuck on a phrase

[Campbell, R. Joe]

Hey Ben,

   When I saw the sequence "ytlan quintlayhiyohuiltizque", I thought it 
was likely to be an "out-rigger" construction, like "moca nihuetzca" (I 
laugh at you), where (from the point of view of English) an argument of 
the verb is sent out with a relational noun (or postposition).  But the 
first reason to reject that possibility is that the following verb 
already has an object (quin-).

   But then I realized that "tlequiquiztli ytleyo" is probably a phrase
('the fireness of the gun'), so "ytlan" would be related to that whole phrase
('next to [or close to] the fireness of the gun).  I thought that the 
verb would mean 'will make them suffer', but that doesn't compute well, 
since its subject is plural, not singular.

   That's the extent of my progress...

Joe

p.s.  I think that I might benefit from more context.


Quoting Ben Leeming <bleeming at gmail.com>:

> Hello all, I'm stuck on a passage from a 16th cent. ecclesiastical Nahuatl
> text detailing the suffering of sinners in hell (my favorite subject).
> Here's the wider context:
>
> "cenca yyac in tlequiquiztli: ytleyo ytlan quintlayhiyohuiltizque, huel
> cenca temamauhtin inic hiyac...
>
> My question is concerning the phrase "ytleyo ytlan."
>
> Another instance is "ytleyo in itlan quim?mamaya."
>
> Any ideas?  Thanks!
>
> Ben
>
> --
> Ben Leeming
> PhD Student
> Department of Anthropology
> University at Albany, SUNY
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