Classical Nahuatl

Alternative forms

• cuīcuītzcatl (Carochi)

Noun

cuīcuītzcatl (plural cuīcuītzcameh)

1. Swallow.
   • 1555: Alonso de Molina, Aqui comienca un vocabulario en la lengua castellana y mexicana, f. 131r.

     Golondrina.cuicuitzcatl.

   • 16C: Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex, book 11, chapter 2, paragraph 3

     CUJCUJTZCATL: tliltontli, tenvitzpil, xopapachton [etc.]

     (Barn swallow: It is small and black, with small, pointed bill, with small, short legs.)

   • 1645: Horacio Carochi, Arte de la lengua mexicana con la declaracion de los adverbios della', f. 4r.

     cuīcuītzcatl, golondrina: cuīcuītzcámê, golondrinas.

Derived terms

• cuicuitzcaconetl

References

• Carochi, Horacio (2001) Grammar of the Mexican Language, with an Explanation of its Adverbs (1645), trans. and ed. by James Lockhart, Stanford: Stanford University Press, pages 30–31
• Sahagún, Bernardino de (1981) Florentine Codex: Book 11 — Earthly Things, tr. by Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble, Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, page 28