temazcalli
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Central Nahuatl[edit]
Noun[edit]
temazcalli
- lodge, sweat bath.
Classical Nahuatl[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From tēma (“to pour, bathe by pouring”) + calli (“house, structure”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
temāzcalli (plural temāzcaltin)
- A sweat lodge, sweat bath.
- 1571, Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, f. 98r. col. 1:
- temazcalli. casilla como estufa, adonde se bañan y sudan.
- (temazcalli. small house like an oven, where they bathe and sweat.)
Descendants[edit]
- Spanish: temazcal
References[edit]
- “temazcalli” in the Nahuatl Dictionary, University of Oregon, 2011.