Nahuatl Digest, Vol 325, Issue 1

Magnus Pharao Hansen magnuspharao at gmail.com
Mon Feb 17 18:20:53 UTC 2014


It comes from old Spanish/Portuguese laranxa meaning orange.


On 17 February 2014 12:00, <nahuatl-request at lists.famsi.org> wrote:

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>    1. Deadline for proposals - Northeastern Nahuatl conference
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>    2. lalaxa (John Sullivan)
>    3. Re: lalaxa (Michael McCafferty)
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> Subject: [Nahuat-l] Deadline for proposals - Northeastern Nahuatl
> conference
> The deadline for proposals for papers and documents for study at the
> Northeastern Nahuatl meetings in Yale is March 14.  The meetings will be
> held May 9 & 10, 2014. This year we are looking into the possibility of
> publishing selected papers initiating an on-going publication series.
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> The organizers include:
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> Caterina Pizzigoni (cp2313 at columbia.edu)
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: John Sullivan <idiez at me.com>
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> Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2014 18:54:05 -0800
> Subject: [Nahuat-l] lalaxa
> Notequixpoyohuan,
>         I have a note in my dictionary that the words for the orange fruit
> in the Huasteca, alaxox (Veracruz) and lalax (San Luis Potosí), come from a
> foreign word, “lalaxa”, but I can´t remember where I found this reference
> or what language it comes from. Anybody know?
> John
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> From: Michael McCafferty <mmccaffe at indiana.edu>
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> Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 08:53:28 -0500
> Subject: Re: [Nahuat-l] lalaxa
> Quoting John Sullivan <idiez at me.com>:
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>  Notequixpoyohuan,
>>         I have a note in my dictionary that the words for the orange fruit
>> in the Huasteca, alaxox (Veracruz) and lalax (San Luis Potosí), come
>> from a foreign word, "lalaxa", but I can´t remember where I found
>> this reference or what language it comes from. Anybody know?
>> John
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> John,
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> It doesn't come from alaxoa:  ?
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Magnus Pharao Hansen
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Department of Anthropology

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