chinamitl
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Classical Nahuatl[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
chināmitl
- A fence of canes or cornstalks.
- 1571, Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, f. 21r. col. 1:
- chinamitl. seto o cerca de cañas.
(chinamitl. a hedge or fence of canes.)- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- An area so enclosed, or the canes or cornstalks themselves.
- A chinampa, an agricultural strip.
- An urban division, the subunit of an altepetl.
Derived terms[edit]
Derived terms
Descendants[edit]
- Spanish: chinampa
References[edit]
- “chinamitl” in the Nahuatl Dictionary, University of Oregon, 2011.