huipilli

huipilli

Classical Nahuatl

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈwiːpiːlli/

Noun

huīpīlli (plural huīpīltin or huīpīlmeh)

1. An indigenous woman's blouse.

   • 1571, Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, f. 157v. col. 1.

     uipilli. camisa de india.

     (uipilli. an indigenous woman's blouse.)

   • c. 1558-1561, Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros memoriales, 232.

     in ticueye in tivipille in pilli tiçivauh tiçivauh in tequiva tiçivauh in achcauhtli tiçivauh

     (you with the skirts, you with the wives of valiant warriors, you the wives of the constables.)

Descendants

• Spanish: huipil

References

• “huipilli” in the Nahuatl Dictionary, University of Oregon, 2011.