Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and ModernTylor, Edward B. (Edward Burnett)
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Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern
Tylor, Edward B. (Edward Burnett)
Mexico -- Antiquities; Mexico -- Description and travel
Several lists of Aztec words compared with those of various
Indo-European languages have been given by philologists. The present is
larger than any I have met with; several words in it are taken from
Buschmann’s work on the Mexican languages. It is desirable in a
philological point of view that comparative lists of words of this kind
should be made, even when, as in the present instance, they are not of
sufficient extent to found any theory upon.
As the Aztec alphabet does not contain nearly all the Sanscrit
consonants, many of them must be compared with the nearest Aztec
sounds, as:
SANSCRIT, t, th, d, dh, &c. AZTEC, t.
SANSCRIT, k, kh, g, gh, &c. AZTEC c. q.
SANSCRIT, l, r. AZTEC, l.
SANSCRIT, b, bh, v. AZTEC, v. or u.
The Aztec c is soft (as s) before e and i, hard (as k) before a, o, u.
The Aztec ch as in _cheese_. I have followed Molina’s orthography in
writing such words as _uel_ or _vel_ (English, _well_) instead of the
more modern, but I think less correct way, _huel_.
1. a-, _negative prefix_ (_as_ qualli, _good_; aqualli, _bad_). SANS.,
a-; GREEK, a-, &c.
2. o-, _preterite augment_ (_as_ nitemachtia, _I teach_; onitemachti,
_I taught_); SANS., a-; compare GREEK ε-.
3. pal, _prep. by_: compare SANS. _prep._, para, _back_; pari,
_circum_; pra, _before_; GREEK, παρα; LAT., per.
4. ce-, cen-, cem-, _prefix collective_ (_as_ tlalla, _to place_,
centlalla, _to collect_); SANS., sa-, san-, sam-; GREEK, συν; LAT.,
syn.
5. ce, cen-, cem-, _one_. SANS., sa (_in_ sa-krit, _once_: comp. Bopp,
Gloss., p. 362.) LAT., se-_mel_, si-_mul_, sim-_plex_.
6. metz (metz-tli), _moon_. SANS., mas.
7. tlal (tlal-li), _earth_. SANS., tala, dhara. LAT., terra, tellus.
8. citlal (citlal-in), _star_. SANS., stri, stâra. LAT., stella. Eng.,
star.
9. atoya (atoya-tl), _river_. SANS., udya.
10. teuh (teuh-tli), _dust_. Sans., dhû-li (_from_ dhû, to drive
about.)
11. teo (teo-tl), _god_. Sans., deva. Greek, θεος. Lat., deus.
12. qual (qual-li), _good_. Sans., kalya, kalyâna. Greek, καλος.
13. uel, _well_. Sans., vara, _excellent_; vli, _to choose_. Lat.,
velle. Icel., vel. Eng., well.
14. uel, _power, brave, &c_., (uel-e, tla-uel-e.) Sans., bala,
_strength_. Lat., valeo, valor.
15. auil, _vicious, wasteful_. Sans., âvila, _sinful, guilty;_ abala,
_weak_. Eng., evil.
16. miec, _much_. Sans., mahat, _great_; manh _or_ mah, _to grow_.
Icel., miok, _much_. Eng., much.
17. vey, _great_. Sans., bahu, _much_.
18. -pol, _augmentative affix_ (as tepe-tl. _mountain_; tepepol, _great
mountain_.) Sans., puru, _much_; pula, _great, ample_. Greek, πολυς.
19. naua (naua-c), _near, by the side of_. Sans., nah, _to join or
connect_. German, nah, _near_.
20. ten (ten-qui), _fuil_. Sans., tûn, _to fill_.
21. izta (izta-c), _white_. Sans., sita.
22. cuz (cuz-tic), _red_. Sans, kashãya, kasãya.
23. ta (ta-tli), _father_. Sans., tãta.
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