chichicatl

Classical Nahuatl

Etymology

From chichic "bitter".

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tʃitʃikatɬ/

Noun

chichicatl

  1. Bile.
  2. Gall bladder.
  3. Descendant.
  4. Ancestor.
    • c. 1609: Tezozomoc, Chimalpahin, Cronica mexicayotl, f. 18r.
      yn huehuetque yllamatque. catca yn tocihuan tocolhuan yn tachtõhuan yn tomintonhuan yn topiptonhuã yn tochichicahuan
      (those who were the ancient ones, men and women, our grandmothers, grandfathers, great-grandfathers, great-great grandparents, great-grandmothers, our forefathers)

References

  • Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, Domingo Francisco de San Antón Muñón (1997) Codex Chimalpahin, ed. and trans. by Arthur J. O. Anderson and Susan Schroeder, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, pages vol. 1, pp. 60–61
  • Karttunen, Frances (1983) An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl, Austin: University of Texas Press, page 47
  • Wimmer, Alexis (2006), “Dictionnaire de la langue nahuatl classique”, in (Please provide the title of the work), archived from the original on 10 November 2007, retrieved 17 November 2007
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