tlahtlacoani
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Classical Nahuatl[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
tlahtlacoā "to do wrong; to sin" + -ni (habitual suffix)
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
tlahtlacoāni (plural tlahtlacoānimeh)
- One who makes mistakes.
- (Christianity) A sinner.
- 1565, Alonso de Molina, Confessionario breve en lengua mexicana y castellana:
- monequi vel tiquilnamiquiz ca titlatlacouani
cõuiene q̃ te acuerdes que eres pecd̓or- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 1645, Horacio Carochi, Arte de la lengua mexicana con la declaración de los adverbios della, f. 14v-15r:
- Timochintin tlālticpac titlacà titlàtlacoānimê. Todos los hombres somo pecadores.
- (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, page 64
- Karttunen, Frances (1983) An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl, Austin: University of Texas Press, page 263
- Lockhart, James (201) Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts, page 238