xochimicqui
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Classical Nahuatl[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From xōchitl (“flower”) + micqui (“one that has died”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
xōchimicqui (animate, plural xōchimicqueh)
- a sacrificial victim, especially a prisoner of war offered in sacrifice
- 1571, Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, f. 160r. col. 2:
- Xochimicque. captiuos enguerra, los quales eran / ſacrficados y muertos, delante de los idolos.
- Xochimicque. those captured in war; which were [later] sacrificed and killed before the idols.
References[edit]
- Alonso de Molina (2008) Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana (1571), Editorial Porrúa, page 160