xopantlah

xopantlah

Classical Nahuatl

Alternative forms

• xōpantlà

Etymology

xō- "green" + -pan "at" + +‎ -tlah.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃoːpantɬaʔ/

Noun

xōpantlah (locative)

1. rainy season; summer
   • 1645, Horacio Carochi, Arte de la lengua mexicana con la declaración de los adverbios della

     intlā āxcān xōpantlà ticecmiqui, quēn ocyè, vel quēnçan yè ticecmiquiz izcéhuetzilizpan? si aora en verano tienes frio, quãto mas le tẽdras en tiẽpo de frios, y yelos?

     (If you are cold now in summer, how much colder will you be in the time of cold and ice?)

References

• Andrews, J. Richard (2003) Workbook for Introduction to Classical Nahuatl, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, page 265
• Carochi, Horacio (2001) Grammar of the Mexican Language, with an Explanation of its Adverbs (1645), translated and edited with commentary by James Lockhart, Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, pages 326–327
• Karttunen, Frances (1983) An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl, Austin: University of Texas Press, page 331