Nahuatl

Alternative forms

• petlaçolli (obsolete)

Noun

petlazolli

1. old, worn mat
   • 1645: Horacio Carochi, Arte de la lengua mexicana con la declaración de los adverbios della, f. 8r

     petlatl, eſtera: petlaçolli, eſtera, y petate viejo.

2. centipede
   • 16C: Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex, book 11, chapter 5, paragraph 7

     Auh injc mjtoa petlaçolli: ipampa in patlachtic, yoan cenca mijec in jma: qujtoa, centzontli: in juhquj petlatl, petlaçolli tẽxitinj, ca cenca mjec in qujqujztiuh, itenpapaçoliuhca: ipan ommota in jma

     (And it is called petlaçolli because it is wide and very many are its legs — 400, they say — like a straw mat, one whose edges are frayed; which has many of its rolled edges coming out. They are taken for its legs.)

Derived terms

• petlazolcoatl

References

• Brewer, Forrest; Jean G. Brewer (1962) Vocabulario mexicano de Telecingo, Morelos: castellano-mexicano, mexicano-castellano, México: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, pages 22, 173
• Karttunen, Frances (1983) An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl, Austin: University of Texas Press, page 192
• 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, pages 86–87