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[Campbell, R. Joe]

Hey Ben,

Sparce comments below with ****

Quoting Ben Leeming <bleeming at gmail.com>:

> OK listeros, what can you make of THIS?
>
> yolquaquallaxtica
>
> context: "Yuhquima chichime mochipa ic nemizque: inic yolquaquallaxtica
> tehuahualtzatinemizque huel iuhqui yolquaqualasme mochihuazque inic cenca
> tlaihiyohuizque.  yuhquinma chichime mochipa nenehcuihtinemizque ynin
> yollo." (from the *De contempu omnium vanitatum huius mundi* at the JCB).
>
> It also appears a little later on in the text in this form: yolquaqualasme.
>
> So far I've got:
>
> yol- = yolli "heart" or yol- "modifying element incorporated in verbs and
> referring to volition, emotions" (Karttunen)
>
> cuacua = "to chew or gnaw at something" (Karttunen)
>
> cuacual[li] + [t]lax (pret. of tlaza) ????
>
> OR
>

****
   My guess is that ...cuacuala... is from <cualani>.  The intransitive
form would be "cuacualaca" and the transitive one "cuacualatza".
heart + boil  =  excitement


> Could "quaqualax" be from "cuacualatza" - "to cause something to make a
> thundering sound"?
>

****
   I agree with you that the "-me" makes one lean toward "-tica" being
instrumental because that would give a parallel interpretation (adding
the -tica to a noun stem, but I am swayed by another parallelism --
with "tehuahualtzatinemizque" and "nenehcuihtinemizque" (compound
verbs).
'they will keep barking at someone'

'they will keep panting'  <nenetl> and <ihcihui>
                    The <ihcihui> guess is a little wild,
                    but "nenehcihui" 'pant' goes so well with the topic
                    of dogs

My guesses,  |8-)

Joe


> In either case, the word in question appears to be a noun-word, in the
> first instance with the  instrumental "tica" and in the second case with
> the plural suffix "-meh."
>
> Any ideas?
>
> tlazohcamati
>
> Ben
>
> --
> Ben Leeming
> PhD Student
> Department of Anthropology
> University at Albany, SUNY
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