ixili
Classical Nahuatl
Alternative forms
Verb
ixili
- (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
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
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