tlayohualli
Classical Nahuatl
Alternative forms
- tlaiooalli
- tlayoalli
Etymology
tlayohua "to get dark" + -lli
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tɬajo(w)alli/
Noun
tlayohualli
- Darkness.
- An unenlightened state.
- 16C: Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex, book 1
- ca cenca vey tlaiooalli, yoan netlapololtiliztli, yn atlaneltoqujliztli, in tlateutoqujliztli, in jpan oamechcauhtiaque yn amotahoan, yn amoculhoan, yn amachcoculhoan
- (Very great was the darkness and the confusion, the unbelief, the idolatry in which your fathers, your grandfathers, your great-grandfathers left you)
- 16C: Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex, book 1
References
- Sahagún, Bernardino de (1981) Florentine Codex, Book 1, trans. by Arthur J.O. Anderson & Charles E. Dibble, Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, page 55