mintontli

mintontli

Classical Nahuatl

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mintoːntɬi/

Noun

mintōntli

1. Great-great-grandchild.
   • 1555: Alonso de Molina, Aqui comienca un vocabulario en la lengua castellana y mexicana, f. 180v.

     Nieto tercero o nieta tercera. mintontli. teminton.

   • c. 1609: Tezozomoc, Chimalpahin, Cronica mexicayotl, f. 18v.

     in tehuantin yn titepilhuan yn titeyxhuihuan yn titeyccatotonhuan yn titemintotonhuan yn titepiptotonhuan yn titechichicahuan. yn titetlapallohuan yn titeheçohuan

     (we sons, grandsons, younger brothers, great-great-grandchildren, great-grandchildren, we, their descendants, their offspring)

2. Great-great-grandparent.
   • c. 1609: Tezozomoc, Chimalpahin, Cronica mexicayotl, f. 18r.

     yn huehuetque yllamatque. catca yn tocihuan tocolhuan yn tachtõhuan yn tomintonhuan yn topiptonhuã yn tochichicahuan

     (those who were the ancient ones, men and women, our grandmothers, grandfathers, great-grandfathers, great-great grandparents, great-grandmothers, our forefathers)

Usage notes

Usually occurs with a possessive prefix.

References

• Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, Domingo Francisco de San Antón Muñón (1997) Codex Chimalpahin, ed. and trans. by Arthur J. O. Anderson and Susan Schroeder, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, pages vol. 1, pp. 60–61
• Wimmer, Alexis (2006), “Dictionnaire de la langue nahuatl classique”, in (please provide the title of the work)‎, archived from the original on 2007-11-14, retrieved 17 November 2007