tonalmitl
Appearance
Central Nahuatl
[edit]Noun
[edit]tonalmitl
Classical Nahuatl
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From tōnalli (“sun”) + mītl (“arrow”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]tōnamītl
- sunray, sunbeam; ray of sunshine
- 1555, Alonso de Molina, Aqui comienca vn vocabulario en la lengua castellana y mexicana, f. 207v:
- Rayo del ſol. tonameyotl. tonalmitl.
(Ray of sunshine. tonameyotl. tonamitl.)- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 1571, Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, f. 149v. col. 1:
- tonalmitl. rayo del ſol.
(tonalmitl. sunbeam.)- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Synonyms
[edit]References
[edit]- Camilla Townsend (2010) Here in This Year: Seventeenth-Century Nahuatl Annals of the Tlaxcala-Puebla Valley, Stanford University Press, pages 146-147