chichihualmecapalli
Classical Nahuatl
Alternative forms
- chichiualmecapal, chichiualmecapalli, chichioalmecapalli
Etymology
chīchīhualli (“breasts”) + mecapalli (“tumpline”)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tʃiːtʃiːwalmecapalli/
Noun
chīchīhualmecapalli
- A woman with large breasts.
- Synonyms: chichihualatecomatl, chichihualaapilol, tlacazolchichihualeh, tlatlazolchichihualeh
- 1555: Alonso de Molina, Aqui comienca vn vocabulario en la lengua castellana y mexicana, f. 234r.
- Tetuda de grandes tetas. chichiualatecomatl.chichiualmecapal.chichiualaapilol.tlacaçolchichiuale.
- 16C: Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex, book 10, chapter 27, paragraph 9
- Chichioallic [...] ichichioal, uiuiiac, memecapaltic, chichioalmecapalli, atoltic.
References
- Sahagún, Bernardino de (1981) Florentine Codex, ed. and trans. by Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble, 2nd ed., rev. edition, Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, pages part XI, pp. 110–111