ixili

Classical Nahuatl

Alternative forms

• ihxili

Verb

ixili

1. (transitive) to pierce; stab; prick
   • 1555, Alonso de Molina, Aqui comienca un vocabulario en la lengua castellana y mexicana, f. 245v:

     Alancear con lança. nite,ixili.nite,tepuztopilhuia.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 16C, Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex, book 11, chapter 7, paragraph 12

     in aqujn ic mjxili ivitzio, aoc vel qujça intlacamo motequj

     (if its spine is thrust in someone’s foot, it can no more come out unless it is cut out)

Derived terms

• tlaxilli

References

• Andrews, J. Richard (2003) Workbook for Introduction to Classical Nahuatl, rev. ed. edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, page 228
• Sahagún, Bernardino de (1981) Arthur J. O. Anderson, Charles E. Dibble, transl., Florentine Codex, 2nd ed., rev. edition, Salt Lake City: The University of Utah Press, page part 11, p. 218