Classical Nahuatl

Noun

eptli ‎(inanimate)

1. oyster
   • 1555: Alonso de Molina, Aqui comienca vn vocabulario en la lengua castellana y mexicana, f. 185v.

     Oſtia peſcado.  amatzcalli. eptli.

     An osyter, the fish.  amatzcalli. eptli.

   • 1571: Idem, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, f. 91r. col. 2.

     Oſtia peſcado. amatzcalli. eptli.

     An osyter, the fish. amatzcalli. eptli.

   • Idem, f. 29r. col. 1.

     Eptli.concha, o oſtia dela mar.

     Eptli. a shell, or an oyster of the sea.

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

     EPTLI: çan no iehoatl in atzcalli, iehoatl in tapalcaiotl in omjtl, in petlanj, in peetlaca.

Synonyms

• āmatzcalli

Derived terms

• eptapalcatl
• epyōllohtli

References

• Sahagún, Bernardino de (1963) Florentine Codex, Book 11 - Earthly Things, tr. by Charles E. Dibble & Arthur J. O. Anderson, Salt Lake City: The University of Utah Press, page 60
• Alonso de Molina (2008) Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana (1571), Editorial Porrúa, page 91