scatter-shot questions

[Michael McCafferty]

Quoting Ben Leeming <bleeming at gmail.com>:

> Any takers on these?
>
> 1.  The "correct" spelling of "Montezuma" (yuck!)?  I'm assuming it's
> Moteuczoma or Moteuhczoma...  I know there's a bazillion different
> spellings but I want to know what the nahuatlatos think!

Ben,

As you know, phonetically speaking, the name is [mote:kwso:ma]. 
[-te:kw-] 'lord' offers transcriptional challenges, but it has been 
written -teuc- as well as -tecuh-, which can really throw someone off 
in terms of how the name should be pronounced. The English spelling 
"Montezuma" deftly sidesteps the whole issue, losing of course a great 
deal of the original pronunciation.

[so:ma:lli] is 'anger'.

[(mo)so:ma] means to 'to make an angry face, to frown".

I've sometimes wondered if Montezuma was in fact as serious as his name. :-)

Michael


>> Ben Leeming
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> Department of Anthropology
> University at Albany, SUNY
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