scatter-shot questions

[Michael McCafferty]

Quoting Michael McCafferty <mmccaffe at indiana.edu>:

> 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
>

That should be "Chimalman".

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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