pochotitlan

Classical Nahuatl

Etymology

pōchōtl "silk-cotton tree" + -ti- (ligature) + -tlan "among"

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /poːtʃoːtitɬan/

Adverb

pōchōtitlan

  1. Among silk-cotton trees.
    • 17C?: Texcoca accounts of conquest episodes, f. 132
      ynic cẽtetl. huey calli. oztocalli. [...] pochotitlan. [...] ynin moch omtlamãtli yn Calli.
      (The first was the great thouse; [then] the cave house, ... the one among silk cotton trees ... These were all the kinds of houses.)

References
  • Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, Domingo Francisco de San Antón Muñón (1997) Arthur J. O. Anderson, Susan Schroeder, transl., Codex Chimalpahin: Volume 2, Norman and London: University of Oklahoma Press, pages 188–189
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