ichtli

Classical Nahuatl

Alternative forms

• ychtli

Pronunciation

Karttunen (1983) writes īchtli; Andrews (2003) writes ichtli; Lockhart (2001) writes īchtli, but says "The long i is not certain."

Noun

ichtli

1. Maguey fiber.
2. A thread of maguey fiber.
   • 1547, Andrés de Olmos, Arte para aprender la lengua mexicana, ed. by Rémi Siméon (1875)

     Ychtli, hilo de maguei, nich, nochhui, vel nichhui.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Derived terms

• ichcatl
• ichcueitl

References

• Andrews, J. Richard. (2003) Workbook for Introduction to Classical Nahuatl, Revised Edition, University of Oklahoma Press, p. 225.
• Karttunen, Frances. (1983) An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl, University of Texas Press, p. 93.
• Lockhart, James. (2001) Nahuatl as Written, Stanford University Press, p. 219.