otomitl

singular

• Otomitl

plural

• otomi
• Otomî (Carochi)

• IPA^(key): /otomitɬ/

otomitl (plural otomih or otontin)

1. An Otomi.
   • 17C: Crónica Mexicayotl

     auh in yehuantin yn oncan chaneque yn otomi. çan quinmotetzanhuia

     (But the [local] inhabitants, the Otomí, considered them an evil portent.)

   • 1645: Horacio Carochi, Arte de la lengua mexicana con la declaración de los adverbios della, f. 4r

     Otomitl, de nacion Otomi [...] Otomî

2. A member of an elite class of soldiers.

• Andrews, J. Richard (2003) Introduction to Classical Nahuatl, rev. ed., Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, page 503
• Andrews, J. Richard (2003) Workbook for Introduction to Classical Nahuatl, rev. ed., Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, page 243
• Carochi, Horacio (2001) Grammar of the Mexican Language, with an Explanation of its Adverbs (1645), trans. and ed. by James Lockhart, Stanford: Stanford University Press, pages 30–31
• Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, Domingo Francisco de San Antón Muñón (1997) Codex Chimalpahin, ed. and trans. by Arthur J. O. Anderson and Susan Schroeder, Norman and London: University of Oklahoma Press, pages 80–81
• Karttunen, Frances (1983) An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl, Austin: University of Texas Press, page 180