tenamaste

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English

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Etymology

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From Spanish tenamaste.

Noun

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tenamaste (plural tenamastes)

  1. Any of the three stones traditionally used to elevate a comal above a fire in Mesoamerican cultures.
    • 1987, Papers of the New World Archaeological Foundation, page 174:
      Tenamaste stones were used as pot rests or firedogs in a cooking fire.
    • 2005, Pablo Valderrama Rouy, “The Totonac”, in Native Peoples of the Gulf Coast of Mexico, page 199:
      Also, at the foot of the tenamastes people bury coins, chiles, grains of corn, and a handful of beans to assure that the domestic food supply will never run out. [...] Contemporary Totonac usually construct a wooden box with legs that is filled with dirt on which the tenamastes are placed. The most sacred place in the main room is the home altar [...]
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:tenamaste.

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Spanish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Classical Nahuatl tenamaztli (hearthstone, triplet).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /tenaˈmaste/ [t̪e.naˈmas.t̪e]
  • Rhymes: -aste
  • Syllabification: te‧na‧mas‧te

Noun

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tenamaste m (plural tenamastes)

  1. (Central America, Mexico) a hearthstone, any of the three stones traditionally used to elevate a comal above a fire
  2. (in the plural, Mexico) triplets
    Synonym: trillizos

References

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  • 2009, Carlos Montemayor et al., Diccionario del náhuatl en el español de México, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, page 123:

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