Tzapotecatl
Classical Nahuatl
Alternative forms
- tzapotecatl
Etymology
tzapotl (“sapote”) + tēcatl (“inhabitant of place”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tsa.po.ˈteː.katɬ/
Noun
Tzapotēcatl (plural Tzapotēcah)
- Zapotec.
- c. 1500, Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex book 1:
- Anaoatl iteouh: tzapoteca in vel inteuh catca,
- He was the god of the seashore people, the proper god of the Zapotecs.
- Anaoatl iteouh: tzapoteca in vel inteuh catca,
Related terms
- Tzapotlan
References
- Sahagún, Bernardino de (1981) Florentine Codex: Book 1 - The Gods, ed. and trans. by Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble, 2nd ed., rev. edition, Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, page 39
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