nican

Classical Nahuatl

Alternative forms

• nicān (Carochi)

Etymology

From ni- (“first person subject marker”) +‎ -can (“locative suffix”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nikaːn/

Adverb

nicān (locative)

1. Here.
   • 1645, Horacio Carochi, Arte de la lengua mexicana con la declaración de los adverbios della, f. 89r:

     nicān, vel iz ōhuāllà cē nohuanyōlqui, aqui vino vn pariente mio.
     (A relative of mine came here.)

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. At this point.

Synonyms

• (here) iz, ici
• (at this point) oncan

Derived terms

• nican tlacatl

References

• Andrews, J. Richard (2003) Workbook for Introduction to Classical Nahuatl, revised edition edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, page 241
• Campbell, R. Joe (1997) “Florentine Codex Vocabulary”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎^[1], archived from the original on 20 February 2011
• Carochi, Horacio (2001) James Lockhart, transl., Grammar of the Mexican Language, with an Explanation of its Adverbs, Stanford: Stanford University Press, pages 328–331
• Karttunen, Francis (1983) An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl, Austin: University of Texas Press, page 172
• Lockhart, James (2001) Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts, Stanford: Stanford University Press, page 227