tzinitzcan

tzinitzcan

Classical Nahuatl

Alternative forms

• tzinitzca
• tzinjtzcan

Noun

tzinitzcan

1. A valuable kind of feather.
   • 16C: Bernardino de Sahagún, "Florentine Codex", book 1

     in nepapan ihujtl, in quetzalli, in tzinjtzcan, in tlauhquechol, xiuhtototl, in toztli, çaqua: quauhtli

     (all manner of feathers: the long tail feathers of the resplendent trogon, its red breast feathers, those of the roseate spoonbill, the lovely cotinga, the yellow headed parrot the troupial, the eagle)

   • c1609: Tezozomoc, Chimalpahin, Cronica mexicayotl, f. 24r

     auh yn nepapan yhuitl yhuan amechmacazq̃. yn xiuhtototl yn tlauhquechol yn tzinitzca.

     (And they will also give you the various kinds of feathers—cotinga, spoonbill, trogon)

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 74–75
• Sahagún, Bernardino de (1981) Florentine Codex: Book 1 - The Gods, ed. and trans. by Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble, 2nd ed., rev. edition, Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, page 42
• Wimmer, Alexis (2006), “Dictionnaire de la langue nahuatl classique”, in (please provide the title of the work)‎, archived from the original on 2007-11-16, retrieved 24 November 2007