cuetlachtli

See also: cuetlāchtli

Central Nahuatl

Alternative forms

• (Amecameca) tlacamayeh

Noun

cuetlachtli

1. Bear.

Classical Nahuatl

Alternative forms

• cuetlāchtli (Carochi)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kʷetɬaːtʃtɬi/

Noun

cuetlāchtli (plural cuēcuetlāchtin)

1. Wolf
2. Bear.

Quotations

• 1555, Alonso de Molina, Aqui comienca un vocabulario en la lengua castellana y mexicana, f. 156v:

  Lobo o loba, o adiue. cuetlachtli.cuyutl.mayaquen.

  (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• c1609: Tezozomoc, Chimalpahin, Cronica mexicayotl, f. 22r

  camo çan quexquich yn ompa onoque yn ompa tlapia yn tequanime yn cuecuetlachtin. yn ocelome. yn mimiztin yn cocohua
  (Countless fierce animals were there; bears, jaguars, mountain lions, snakes were on guard.)

  (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• 1645, Horacio Carochi, Arte de la lengua mexicana con la declaración de los adverbios della, f. 5r:

  cuetlāchtli, lobo: cuecuétlāchtin.

  (please add an English translation of this quotation)

References

• Andrews, J. Richard (2003) Workbook for Introduction to Classical Nahuatl, rev. ed. edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, page 220
• Carochi, Horacio (2001) James Lockhart, transl., Grammar of the Mexican Language, with an Explanation of its Adverbs (1645), Stanford: Stanford University Press, page 32
• Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, Domingo Francisco de San Antón Muñón (1997) Arthur J. O. Anderson, Susan Schroeder, transl., Codex Chimalpahin, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, pages 70–71
• Karttunen, Frances (1983) An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl, Austin: University of Texas Press, page 70
• Lockhart, James (2001) Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts, Stanford: Stanford University Press, page 216