huitzitzilnahualeh

Classical Nahuatl

Alternative forms

vitzitzilnaoale

Etymology

huitzitzilnahualli "hummingbird disguise" + -eh "possessor"

Noun

huitzitzilnahualeh

One who has a hummingbird disguise.
- 16C: Bernardino de Sahagún, "Florentine Codex", book 1
  Auh ynjc muchichioaia, [...] vitzitzilnaoale
  
  (And he was thus arrayed: ... His was the hummingbird disguise.)

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 3

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