tzinitzcan

Classical Nahuatl

Alternative forms

• tzinitzca
• tzinjtzcan

Noun

tzinitzcan

1. A valuable kind of feather.
   • 16C: Bernardino de Sahagún, "Florentine Codex", book 1

     in nepapan ihujtl, in quetzalli, in tzinjtzcan, in tlauhquechol, xiuhtototl, in toztli, çaqua: quauhtli

     (all manner of feathers: the long tail feathers of the resplendent trogon, its red breast feathers, those of the roseate spoonbill, the lovely cotinga, the yellow headed parrot the troupial, the eagle)

   • c1609: Tezozomoc, Chimalpahin, Cronica mexicayotl, f. 24r

     auh yn nepapan yhuitl yhuan amechmacazq̃. yn xiuhtototl yn tlauhquechol yn tzinitzca.
     (And they will also give you the various kinds of feathers—cotinga, spoonbill, trogon)

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References

• Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, Domingo Francisco de San Antón Muñón (1997) Arthur J. O. Anderson, Susan Schroeder, transl., Codex Chimalpahin, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, pages 74–75
• Sahagún, Bernardino de (1981) Arthur J. O. Anderson, Charles E. Dibble, transl., Florentine Codex: Book 1 - The Gods, 2nd ed., rev. edition, Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, page 42
• Wimmer, Alexis (2006) “Dictionnaire de la langue nahuatl classique”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎^[1], archived from the original on 16 November 2007