tlacamictiani
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Classical Nahuatl[edit]
Etymology[edit]
tlācatl "person" + mictiā "kill" + -ni (habitual suffix)
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
tlācamictiāni
- Murderer; killer.
- 1645, Horacio Carochi, Arte de la lengua mexicana con la declaración de los adverbios della:
- tlācamictiāni, el que mata à personas.
(Tlācamictiāni is one who kills people.)- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
References[edit]
- Carochi, Horacio (2001) James Lockhart, transl., Grammar of the Mexican Language, with an Explanation of its Adverbs (1645), Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, pages 174–175
- Karttunen, Frances (1983) An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl, Austin: University of Texas Press, page 252