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
Quacuillo, III, 4; XX, 3. From _qua_, to eat.
Quatonalla, XVIII, 1. "Head bright," the helmet on the head.
Quaui, XIII, 1. A shortened form of _quauiuitl_, in the same verse;
compound of _quauhtli_, eagle, _iuitl_, feather; a decoration
explained in the Gloss, usually called the _quauhtzontli_, eagle
crest.
Quauinochitla, XI, 2. "Among the tuna trees."
Quauiquemitl, II, 2. From _quauhtli_, eagle, _quemitl_, clothing, garb.
Quechol, XIV, 5, 7. A bird.
Quentia, XV, 1. To dress oneself.
Quetl, II, 2. Poetic for _quetza_, to rise, to come out of or from. See
Gloss to III, 7.
Quetza, XIV, 6. To arise from.
Quetzalaueuetl, XV, 2. Of _quetzal_, beautiful, and _aueuetl_, the water
cypress, fig. chief, lord.
Quetzalcalla, III, 9. "The house of the quetzal," beautiful as the
quetzal bird. Explained in the Gloss to be the Place of
Joy.
Quetzalcoatli, XI, 3; XIV, 6. Proper name.
Quetzalcocox, VII, 6; VIII, 7. The pheasant.
Queyamica, III, 8. For _quenamican_, how there?
Queyanoca, I, 1. According to the Gloss, equivalent to _onoca_, from
_onoc_.
Quiauiteteu, VIII, 6. Rain gods; _quiauitl_, rain; _teteu_, plural of
_teotl_, god.
Quilaztla, XIII, 1. For Quilaztli, another name of Cihuacoatl.
Quilazteutl, XVIII, 2. _See_ _Quilaztla_.
Quinexaqui, VII, 1. Explained by the Gloss by _oniualleuac_, I came
quickly (_eua_, in composition, signifies precipitation).
Hence it is a form from _yauh_, _yaqui_.
Quiyauatla, VI, 6. Poetic for _quiauitl_, rain.
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