achtontli
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Central Nahuatl
[edit]Noun
[edit]achtontli
Classical Nahuatl
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Related to achto "first".
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]achtontli (animate)
achtōntli
- Great-grandfather.
- 1555, Alonso de Molina, Aqui comienca un vocabulario en la lengua castellana y mexicana, f. 244r:
- Viſauelo. achtontli.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- c. 1609, Tezozomoc, Chimalpahin, Cronica mexicayotl, f. 18r.
- yn huehuetque yllamatque. catca yn tocihuan tocolhuan yn tachtõhuan yn tomintonhuan yn topiptonhuã yn tochichicahuan
(those who were the ancient ones, men and women, our grandmothers, grandfathers, great-grandfathers, great-great grandparents, great-grandmothers, our forefathers)- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Usage notes
[edit]Usually occurs with a possessive prefix.
References
[edit]- Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, Domingo Francisco de San Antón Muñón (1997) Arthur J. O. Anderson, Susan Schroeder, transl., Codex Chimalpahin, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, pages vol. 1, pp. 60–61
- Karttunen, Frances (1983) An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl, Austin: University of Texas Press, page 3
- Lockhart, James (2001) Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts, Stanford: Stanford University Press, page 210