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
A form from _tona_, to shine.
Tonana, IV, 1. "Our mother;" _nantli_.
Topaniaz, IX, 2. The Gloss reads more correctly, _no umpa niaz_, "also
there I shall go."
Totoch, X, 1; XVII, title. _Tochtli_, a rabbit; the name of a god of
wine; also, of a day of the week.
Toyauan, I, 5, 6. _To-yauan_, our enemies. (_See_ Olmos. _Gram._, p.
25.)
Tozquiuaua, XIX, 5. From _tozquitl_, voice.
Tzioac, XIII, 5. For _tzioactli_, a sacred tree; here apparently fig.
for a sacred person.
Tzioactitlan, VII, 2. "In the tzihuac bushes;" the tzihuac was a kind of
maguey of a sacred character. _See_ my _Ancient Nahuatl
Poetry_, p. 140.
Tziuaquimiuh, VII, 3. "My havresac made of tzihuac fibres."
Tzocotzontla, XX, 1. From _tzocoton_, little, _tzontli_, hair.
Tzonimolco, VI, 1. "Where the hair spreads abroad." The name of the hall
sacred to the god of fire in the temple. The expression
refers figuratively to the flames blazing upwards like hair
from a head.
Tzotzonia, XIX, 5. To play on an instrument.
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Ualitla, XV, 4. Comp. of _uallauh_ and _itla_.
Uallacic, VIII, 5. From _uallauh_, to come, and _acic_, which adds the
sense of approaching near.
Ualmeua, XII, 3. To cry lustily.
Ueca, X, 1. Far.
Uel, or Huel, adv., I, 4. Well.
Uelmatia, III, 4. To appear well, to be well.
Ueponi, VII, 1. _Uepollotl_, kin, relations.
Uexcaitoa, II, 1. To offer harm, to curse.
Uicacapa, IV, 7. Towards, to.
Uitzalochpan, XIII, 1. Compound of _huitz_, to come, and _tlaloa_, to
run.
Uitzetla, II, 2. For _uitzlan_, in at the south, or the place of thorns.
Uitznauac, II, 4. For Huitznauac. _See_ Notes to Hymn II.
Uitztla, XIII, 3. According to the Gloss to v. 4, this is a poetic form
for _uictli_, a hoe, the native agricultural implement.
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