tzonhuaztli

Classical Nahuatl

Alternative forms

• tzonvaztli
• tzouaztli

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tsonwaːstɬi/
• IPA^(key): /tso(w)aːstɬi/

Noun

tzonhuāztli

1. Snare for catching birds.
   • 1555, Alonso de Molina, Aqui comienca un vocabulario en la lengua castellana y mexicana, f. 153r:

     Lazo. tzouaztli.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 16C: Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex, book 1

     Juh qujtoaia, ca iehoatl itlatzintil, ytlanextil, qujnexti, qujteittiti in matlatl, yn atlatl, yn mjnacachalli, yn avictli, tzonvaztli.

     (They said that he invented, he revealed, the net, the atlatl, the trident, the pole for properlling boats, the bird snare—these were his innovations, his inventions.)

References

• 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 37