centlacnepal

[Michael McCafferty]

Hi, Ben,

I've never parsed the term. I just swallowed it whole. I think it's an 
extremely rare word. I can't find it in the Florentine records that Joe 
gives me. I imagine that the constituent morphemes are 
cen-tlactli-ne-pal. However, that analysis would not make it 
analogically similar to centlapal, which is another term used for 
ceccapal.

Interesting!

Looking forward, too, to what others have to say about it.

Michael



Quoting "Leeming, Ben" <b.leeming at rivers.org>:

> Michael, thank you. You've provided the clues that has helped track
> down PART of the mystery - the part related to "cecapal," which you
> believe to be related to my "centlacnepal."  Here's what I pulled off
> of the Nahuatl Dictionary at the Wired Humanities Project (by the
> way, an indispensable resource for those out there unfamiliar with
> it: http://whp.uoregon.edu/dictionaries/nahuatl/):
>
> ytepanco Francisco yn occecapalal ytepanco Maria = a la linde de
> Francisco junto a él y por otra a la linde de María
> [Source: Vidas y bienes olvidados: Testamentos indígenas
> novohispanos, vol. 1, Testamentos en castellano del siglo XVI y en
> náhuatl y castellano de Ocotelulco de los siglos XVI y XVII, eds.
> Teresa Rojas Rabiela, Elsa Leticia Rea López, y Constantino Medina
> Lima (Santa Bárbara, Tamascolco, Tlaxcala, 1598), 290-291.]
>
> Esto corresponde a coeccan, occan, etcétera, en otros dialectos. El
> sufijo -pal se clasifica generalmente como un sufijo instrumental, y
> no locativo. Ceccapal es el
> "adverbio, 'por un lado'; occápal, 'por dos lados', etcétera.
> Literalmente, 'en un lugar'."
> [Source: Thelma Sullivan, Documentos Tlaxcaltecas del siglo XVI en
> lengua náhuatl (Mexico: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México,
> 1987), 40.]
>
> Still, the mystery is far from solved since, despite my efforts, I
> can't find any reference anywhere to "centlacnepal." Based on what
> Sullivan seems to be saying, can I assume the "cen-" is "one" and the
> "-pal" is the postposition meaning "for, by means of"?  Or is the
> "cen" in "centlacnepal" unrelated to the "ce-" in "cecapal" and
> instead "cem/n: one, entirely, wholly"? How is "-tlac-" operating
> here? Is this "tlactli, upper body, torso"?
>
> I'd love to hear others chime in on this one.  John? Dr. Launey? Magnus?
>
> Ben
> --
> Ben Leeming
> PhD Candidate
> Department of Anthropology
> University at Albany
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