altepetenancoyoctli
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Classical Nahuatl[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From āltepētenāmitl (“city wall”) + coyoctli (“hole, gap”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
āltepētenāncoyoctli (inanimate)
- A small gate in a city wall.
- 1571, Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, f. 4r. col. 2:
- Altepetenancoyoctli. portillo de muro de ciu-
-dad.
(Altepetenancoyoctli. small gate of of a city wall.)- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
References[edit]
- Alonso de Molina (2008) Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana (1571), Mexico: Editorial Porrúa, page 4