xopantlah

Classical Nahuatl

Alternative forms

• xōpantlà

Etymology

xō- "green" + -pan "at" + +‎ -tlah.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃoːpantɬaʔ/

Noun

xōpantlah (locative)

1. rainy season; summer
   • 1645, Horacio Carochi, Arte de la lengua mexicana con la declaración de los adverbios della:

     intlā āxcān xōpantlà ticecmiqui, quēn ocyè, vel quēnçan yè ticecmiquiz izcéhuetzilizpan? si aora en verano tienes frio, quãto mas le tẽdras en tiẽpo de frios, y yelos?
     (If you are cold now in summer, how much colder will you be in the time of cold and ice?)

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

References

• Andrews, J. Richard (2003) Workbook for Introduction to Classical Nahuatl, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, page 265
• Carochi, Horacio (2001) James Lockhart, transl., Grammar of the Mexican Language, with an Explanation of its Adverbs (1645), Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, pages 326–327
• Karttunen, Frances (1983) An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl, Austin: University of Texas Press, page 331