Rig Veda Americanus: Sacred Songs of the Ancient Mexicans, With a Gloss in Nahuatl
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Rig Veda Americanus: Sacred Songs of the Ancient Mexicans, With a Gloss in Nahuatl
Nahuatl poetry
Poetic for _coztic_, yellow; literally, "yellowed,"
from _cocauia_.
Cozcapantica, XII, 1. Adverbial, from _cozcatl_, a jewel, fig., an
infant.
Cozcapilla, XII, 4. From _cozcatl_, _pilli_, "jewel of a babe."
Cuecuechiuia, V, 2. From _cuecuechoa_, to shake.
Cuecuexi, XI, 3. From _cuecuechoa_, to shake.
Cueponi, IV, 1, etc. To bloom, to blossom.
Cuicatl, I, 1, _et saepe_. Hymn, song. In compos., _cuic_.
E
Eztlamiyaual, III, 2. Apparently from _eztli_, blood, race, and
_tlamiauati_, to surpass, to excel.
H
Huia, II, 3. _See_ _Ahuia_.
Y
Y, I. For _in_ (_yn_), he, it, the, that, etc.
Ya. _See_ Ayya.
Yancuic, IV, 7. New, fresh, green.
Yancuipilla, XII, 3. New-born babe.
Yantata, XIV, 3. An exclamation.
Yaquetlaya, I, 1. Apparently a form of _tlayacati_, or of _yaque_, both
from the root _yac-_, a point, a prominence, to be
prominent. But the etymology is not clear.
Yauciuatzin, XIII, 6. _Yaotl-cihuatl-tzin_, "the revered war-woman."
Yauicaya, III, 2. From _yauh_, to go.
Yauilili, XI, 5. Causative form of _yauh_, "to cause to go," to put to
flight.
Yautiua, I, 5, 6. Freq. from _yaotia_, to fight.
Yautlatoaquetl, XV, 3, 4. _See_ _yautlatoaya_.
Yautlatoaya, I, 3; V. 1. From _yaotl_, war, _tlatoa_, to speak.
_Yautlatoani_, ruler in war, was one of the titles of
Huitzilopochtli.
Yaxcana, III, 9. _Axcan_, now. _Axcatl_, goods, property. _Yaxca_, his,
its, property.
Yayalezqui, III, 7, 8. Frequent. of _yaliztli_; to go and come, go back
and forth.
Yca, IV, 6. With which.
Iccotl, VI, 2. A tree planted in front of temples. Its bark was used for
mats (Sahagun).
Icnocaua, XVI, 1, 2. To leave unprotected, as orphans.
Ye, VIII, 1. Already, this, but, nevertheless.
Yecoa, XIII, 8; XIV, 2. 1. To have carnal connection. 2. To end, to
finish.
Yeua, I, 4, etc. For _yehuatl_, he, it, that.
Ihuitl, I, 3; IV, 7. A feather; _met._, a model, pattern.
Ihiya, II, 2. Apparently for _iye_, yes, affirmative particle.
Ilhuiquetl, III, 8. From _ilhuia_, to say, to call.
Iliuiz, XV, 5. Thoughtlessly; with negative prefix _a_, not
thoughtlessly.
Ymocxi, I, 2. Poetic for _in micti_, from _mictia_, to slaughter.
Yoalticatla, VIII, 1. _Yoalli-ticatla_, midnight.
Yoalli, XV, 1. Night.
Yoatzin, XV, 3, 4. Reverential of _yoalli_, night.
Yocoxquia, XIX, 4. Peaceably, quietly.
Yolcan, XVIII, 5. Place of birth.
Yolceuiz, XV, 3, 4. To appease, to please.
Yollotl, IV, 6. Heart, mind, center.
Itaca, IV, 6. For _itacatl_, food, sustenance.
Iteamic, XIV, 11. From _itta_, to see.
Itlani, XIV, 7. _See_ _Tlani_.
Itontecuitl, VI, 5. Explained by the Gloss by _in tetecuti_, which I
take to be an error for _in teteuctin_.
Itopanecauiloc, III, 9. The Gloss gives _ni topan_. The verbal is a
passive from _caua_, to leave, to abandon.
Itta, IV, 8. To see, to esteem.
Ytzicotla, II, 5.
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