xohuilin
Classical Nahuatl
Alternative forms
- xoujli
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʃowili(n)/
Noun
xohuilin
- Catfish.
- 16C: Bernardino de Sahagún, "Florentine Codex", book 1
- Auh in pipiltotonti muchintin qujntlaxqujaia: yn aca coatl: cujiatl, xoujli, axolotl, tototl
- (And all the little children roasted some snakes, frogs, small white fish, the axolotl, birds)
- 16C: Bernardino de Sahagún, "Florentine Codex", book 1
References
- Karttunen, Frances (1983) An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl, Austin: University of Texas Press, page 330
- 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 30