teuctlacozauhqui

teuctlacozauhqui

Classical Nahuatl

Alternative forms

• tecutlacoçauhqui
• teuctlacoçauhqui

Etymology

teuctli (“lord”) +‎ tla- (“?”) +‎ cozauhqui (“yellow”)

Noun

teuctlacozauhqui

1. A kind of rattlesnake (Crotalus sp.).
   • 1555: Alonso de Molina, Aqui comienca un vocabulario en la lengua castellana y mexicana, f. 33v.

     Biuora grande pintada. tecutlacoçauhqui.

   • 16C: Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex, book 11, chaapter 5, paragraph 1

     itech qujça in tecutli, yoan coçauhquj: injc mjtoa tecutlacoçauhquj, quil imachcauh in cocooa

     (it comes from "lord" and "yellow." It is called "yellow lord" because it is said to be the leader of the serpents.)

   • 17C: Annals of Cuauhtitlan, 38:16–18

     quauhtli yn nopã ycac oçelotl yn nopan ycac cuetlachtli yn nopan ycac teuctlacoçauhqui y nopan mani çenca nechmauhtia yn notemic

     (An eagle is standing on top of me. A jaguar is standing on top of me. A wolf is standing on top of me. A rattlesnake is lying on top of me. My dream terrifies me.)

References

• Bierhorst, John (1992) Codex Chimalpopoca: The Text in Nahuatl with a Glossary and Grammatical Notes, Tucson & London: The University of Arizona Press, page 49
• Bierhorst, John (1992) History and Mythology of the Aztecs: The Codex Chimalpopoca, Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, page 88
• Sahagún, Bernardino de (1981) Florentine Codex: Book 11 — Earthly Things, tr. by Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble, Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, page 76
• Wimmer, Alexis (2006), “Dictionnaire de la langue nahuatl classique”, in (please provide the title of the work)‎, archived from the original on 2007-12-27, retrieved 10 December 2007