cuicuitzcatl

See also: cuīcuītzcatl

Classical Nahuatl

Alternative forms

cuīcuītzcatl (Carochi)

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /kʷiːkʷiːtskatɬ/

Noun

cuīcuītzcatl (plural cuīcuītzcameh)

Swallow.
- 1555, Alonso de Molina, Aqui comienca un vocabulario en la lengua castellana y mexicana, f. 131r:
  Golondrina.cuicuitzcatl.
  (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 16C: Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex, book 11, chapter 2, paragraph 3
  CUJCUJTZCATL: tliltontli, tenvitzpil, xopapachton [etc.]
  
  (Barn swallow: It is small and black, with small, pointed bill, with small, short legs.)
- 1645, Horacio Carochi, Arte de la lengua mexicana con la declaracion de los adverbios della, f. 4r:
  cuīcuītzcatl, golondrina: cuīcuītzcámê, golondrinas.
  (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Derived terms

cuicuitzcaconetl

References

Carochi, Horacio (2001) James Lockhart, transl., Grammar of the Mexican Language, with an Explanation of its Adverbs (1645), Stanford: Stanford University Press, pages 30–31
Sahagún, Bernardino de (1981) Arthur J. O. Anderson, Charles E. Dibble, transl., Florentine Codex: Book 11 — Earthly Things, Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, page 28

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