Classical Nahuatl

Alternative forms

• vitzitzilnaoale

Noun

huitzitzilnahualeh

1. One who has a hummingbird disguise.
   • 16C: Bernardino de Sahagún, "Florentine Codex", book 1

     Auh ynjc muchichioaia, [...] vitzitzilnaoale

     (And he was thus arrayed: ... His was the hummingbird disguise.)

References

• 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 3