tizatl
Classical Nahuatl
FWOTD – 30 July 2020
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tiːsatɬ/
Noun
tīzatl
- whitewash (a varnish of white earth)
- 1571, Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana (in Spanish), page 113r. col. 1:
- tizatl. cierto barniz, o tierra blanca.
- tizatl. a certain varnish, or white earth.
- chalk
- c. 1558-1561, Bernardino de Sahagún, editor, Primeros Memoriales, page 103:
- Yxaval tiçatl.
- her facial paint is chalk
Derived terms
- chīmaltīzatl
- tīzatlālli
Further reading
- “tizatl” in the Nahuatl Dictionary, University of Oregon, 2011.
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