chichihualmecapalli
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Classical Nahuatl
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]chīchīhualli (“breasts”) + mecapalli (“tumpline”)
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]chīchīhualmecapalli
- A woman with large breasts.
- 1555, Alonso de Molina, Aqui comienca vn vocabulario en la lengua castellana y mexicana, f. 234r:
- Tetuda de grandes tetas. chichiualatecomatl.chichiualmecapal.chichiualaapilol.tlacaçolchichiuale.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 16C: Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex, book 10, chapter 27, paragraph 9
- Chichioallic [...] ichichioal, uiuiiac, memecapaltic, chichioalmecapalli, atoltic.
References
[edit]- Sahagún, Bernardino de (1981) Arthur J. O. Anderson, Charles E. Dibble, transl., Florentine Codex, 2nd ed., rev. edition, Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, pages part XI, pp. 110–111