tizatl

Classical Nahuatl

FWOTD – 30 July 2020

Alternative forms

• tiçatl

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tiːsatɬ/

Noun

tīzatl

1. whitewash (a varnish of white earth)
   • 1571, Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana (in Spanish), page 113r. col. 1:

     tizatl. cierto barniz, o tierra blanca.

     tizatl. a certain varnish, or white earth.

2. chalk
   • c. 1558-1561, Bernardino de Sahagún, editor, Primeros Memoriales, page 103:

     Yxaval tiçatl.

     her facial paint is chalk

Derived terms

• chīmaltīzatl
• tīzatlālli

Descendants

• → Spanish: tiza, tizate
  • → Asturian: tiza
  • → Tagalog: tisa

Further reading

• “tizatl” in the Nahuatl Dictionary, University of Oregon, 2011.