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
For _nic-tecuia_, I tie it, I make it fast. The Gloss,
_amo-tecuhuan_, is not intelligible.
No-teuh, I, 3; XX, 2, 4. "My god."
Noyoco, XI, 5. Apparently for _niyoco_, "with me alone."
Noyollo, XV, 3. From _yollotl_, heart, soul, courage, etc.
O
Oc, II, 2. Yet, besides this.
Ocelocoatl, III, 4. "Tiger snake."
Ocoyoalle, VIII, 2. "The night pine." Apparently a proper name.
Ocutitlana, XI, 2. "Among the pine woods."
Oholopa, II, 3. Poetic compound of _ololoa_, to cover, to dress, and
_oppa_, twice.
Ollama, XIV, 9. To play at ball; from _olli_, a ball.
Olya, XVIII, 1. A form from _ololoa_, to cover or clothe oneself.
Omei, XIII, 5. For _ome_, two; the Gloss reads _matlactli ome_, twelve.
On, I, 1, _et saepe_. A particle, merely euphonic, or signifying action
at a distance.
Onca, _saepe_. There.
Onoalico, XI, 1. Proper name, derived from _onoua_, the impersonal form
of _onoc_, and meaning "a peopled place," a thickly inhabited
spot. The terminal, _co_, is the postposition, at.
Opuchi, XVIII, 6. "Left-handed;" by the Gloss = _tiacauh_, brave,
valiant.
Oquixanimanico, X, 1. A form in the second person plural, compounded of
_quica_ and _mani_, "coming forth, scatter yourselves
around."
Otlacatqui, XIV, 3, 4. _Ilacati_, to be born.
Otli, VIII, 5. Path, road.
Ouayyeo, I, 2. An interjection.
Oya, _saepe_. 1. An interjection. 2. Preterit of _yauh_, to go.
Oyatonac, II, 6, 7. For _otonac_, from _tona_, to shine.
Oztomecatl, XIV, 11. A merchant.
P
Petlacalco, XX, 4. From _petlatl_, mat, _calli_, house, and _co_,
post-position.
Peua, VI, 3. To begin.
Picha-huazteca, I, 2. Proper name, "The frozen Huastecs," perhaps those
living on the high Sierra, who were the nearest to the
Nahuas.
Pillachiualoyan, XIV, 4. Locative from _pilli-chiua_, to engender
offspring.
Piltzintecutli, IX, 2; XIV, 9. Lord of the youths or children,
_piltzintli_.
Pipiteca, I, 6. Those having charge of the spies, from _pipia_, to spy.
Pipitla, XX, 2. Reduplicated locative from _pilli_, a child.
Pinauhtia, VI, 1. To make ashamed.
Pinauia, II, 1; III, 3, 4. To affront, to put to shame; to censure, to
blame.
Poliuiz, XV, 3. From _poloa_, to destroy.
Pomaya, I, 2; XI, 1. Apparently for _panauia_, to conquer.
Potocaya, XIII, 6, 7. _Potli_, companion.
Potonia, IV, 7; XIV, 10. To be liberal, to give equally or freely; to
adorn with feathers.
Poyauhtla, III, 6. Among the fogs, from _poctli_, smoke, fog, mist;
_atl_, water.
Pupuxotiuh, I, 3. A gerundive form from _popoxoa_, to till, to work the
soil; here used figuratively.
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