dragonfly

[Michael McCafferty]

Thanks to all for sharing your terms for 'dragonfly'. As in the case of 
the names for insects (birds, trees, etc.) in other languages, there 
seems to be a good deal of dialectal variation in Nahuatl for this 
yolcatl. I grew up calling dragonflies "snake-feeders". Didn't even 
hear the word 'dragonfly' until I was a teenager.

Michael


Quoting Richard BUDELBERGER <budelberger.richard at wanadoo.fr>:

>> Message du 02/06/14 14:37
>> De : "David Wright"
>> A : "Nahuat-l"
>> Copie à :
>> Objet : Re: [Nahuat-l] dragonfly
>>
>> That's an interesting question, Michael. I looked through the bugs in book
>> 11 of the Florentine Codex and didn't see any dragonflies.
>
> .CINCOCOPI:
> cincocopi: 
> 1. ~ plante ressemblant au maïs. 
> Esp., mayz falso que parece mayz y no lo es. 
> Description. Sah11,282. 
> Cf. aussi cinte?cocopi. 
> 2. ~ désigne également la libellule. Sah11,64. 
> ahn?zo cincocopi ahn?zo p?pal?tl , ou une libellule ou un papillon -
> or a dragon-fly, or a butterfly. Sah9,97. 
>  
> See http://sites.estvideo.net/malinal/c/nahuatlCIHUI.html#CINCOCOPI
>
>> Paul Wolf's
>> comprehensive Spanish-Nahuatl dictionary doesn't have an entry for the usual
>> Spanish word, libélula, so I won't bother going through the other
>> dictionaries. Perhaps the list members who speak Nahuatl as their mother
>> tongue can help us out, or perhaps Jonathan Amith, who evidently has spent a
>> lot of time learning how to talk about natural things in Nahuatl.
>>
>> -----Mensaje original-----
>> De: nahuatl-bounces at lists.famsi.org [mailto:nahuatl-bounces at lists.famsi.org]
>> En nombre de Michael McCafferty
>> Enviado el: lunes, 2 de junio de 2014 06:52 a. m.
>> Para: nahuatl at lists.famsi.org
>> Asunto: [Nahuat-l] dragonfly
>>
>> Can someone send me the term(s) for 'dragonfly'?
>>
>> tlaxtlahui
>>
>> Michael
>>
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