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单词 Tsitsimat
释义

Tsitsimat

Highland Popoluca

Etymology

Borrowed from a Nahuan language; cf. Classical Nahuatl tzitzimitl (a kind of female demon that descends from the sky to eat people during solar eclipses), Mecayapan Nahuatl tzitzimiꞌ (devil, Satan).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /t͡siˈt͡simat/

Proper noun

Tsitsimat

  1. a mythological being like a witch with a single central breast
    • 1947, Fermín Gutiérrez; Ben Elson, “The Homshuk: A Sierra Popoluca Text”, in Tlalocan: A Journal of Source Materials on the Native Cultures of Mexico, volume II, number 3, pages 193214:
      1. ȼiˌȼimat¹ tuum ˌčoomo ˀitʸ-ˌˀidʸʌk² kooȼʌkˌhoom.
      An old woman named Tsitsimat lived in the mountains.

References

  • Elson, Benjamin F.; Gutiérrez G., Donaciano (1999) Diccionario popoluca de la Sierra, Veracruz (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 41) (in Spanish), Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., →ISBN, page 111
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