mazatl

Classical Nahuatl

The day sign "deer", from the Codex Magliabechiano.

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Alternative forms

• maçatl

Pronunciation

• IPA: /masaːtɬ/

Noun

mazātl (plural māmazah or mazāmeh)

1. Deer.
   • 1547: Andrés de Olmos, Arte para aprender la lengua mexicana

     Maçatl, venado. Mamaça.

   • 1555: Alonso de Molina, Aqui comienca un vocabulario en la lengua castellana y mexicana, f. 64r.

     Cieruo. maçatl.

   • c1600: "Anónimo Mexicano", f. 11r.

     onca:ncamaía, tepe Zolime, totochtin, cuahtotolim, Mazame, [etc.]

     (There were partridges, rabbits, fowl, deer, [etc.])

   • c1609: Tezozomoc, Chimalpahin, Cronica mexicayotl, f. 22r

     ca maçatl. tochtli. tequani. cohuatl. tototl. yn quiminaya.

     (With their arrows they shot deer, rabbits, fierce animals, snakes, and birds.)

2. Horse.
3. A day sign.

Synonyms

• (horse) cahuallo

Derived terms

• mazacocoliztli
• tlacamazatl

References

• 2003, Andrews, J. Richard, Workbook for Introduction to Classical Nahuatl, edition rev. ed., Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, page pp. 235–236:
• 2005, Anónimo Mexicano, ed. and trans. by Richley H. Crapo, Bonnie Glass-Coffin, Logan: Utah State University Press, page p. 29:
• 1997, Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, Domingo Francisco de San Antón Muñón, Codex Chimalpahin, ed. and trans. by Arthur J. O. Anderson and Susan Schroeder, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, page pp. 70–71:
• 1983, Karttunen, Frances, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl, Austin: University of Texas Press, page p. 142:
• 2001, Lockhart, James, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts, Stanford: Stanford University Press, page p. 117:
• 1875, Olmos, Andrés de, Grammaire de la langue nahuatl ou mexicaine, ed. by Rémi Siméon, Paris: Imprimerie Nationale: