scatter-shot questions

[Michael McCafferty]

It's a challenge balancing teaching right now with looking at more 
important things like Ben's questions. :-)

John's answer sparked something just now as I'm awaiting the arrival of 
students.

This could be that rare locative suffix -ma:n which means something 
like "over all the surface of". This would work nicely for 
"Chilmalman," and the dropping of the final -n would not be unexpected.

Michael

Quoting John Sullivan <idiez at me.com>:

> Piyali Ben,
> 	I would consider the preterite agentive of  "mani" or "mana". If
> it's "mani", chimalli is an adverb. if it's "mana", chimalli is the
> object.
> John
>
> On Jun 27, 2013, at 10:10 PM, Ben Leeming <bleeming at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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!
>>
>> 2.  The plural of malinalli?
>>
>> 3.  The meaning of Chimalma (also spelled Chimalman), the mother of
>> Quetzalcoatl?  I'm leaning towards "shield-hand"...
>>
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Ben
>>
>> --
>> Ben Leeming
>> PhD Student
>> Department of Anthropology
>> University at Albany, SUNY
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