tehhuatl

Classical Nahuatl

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tehhuātl

  1. (singular, emphatic) you, your, yours
    • 2020, Miguel León-Portilla, transl., Cantares mexicanos III‎[1], page 385:
      ac tehuatl yn amo tiquilnamiqui in momoztla, Mixpan mochihua Ac ço tehuapol yn amo ic timomauhtia, yn amo titlacaquiznequi in amo timocencahuaznequi.
      Who are you, that you do not remember what happens before you day after day? And who are you, uncouth one, that you do not fear, that you will not listen and prepare yourself?
    • 1649, Luis Laso de la Vega, translated by Lisa Sousa, Stafford Poole, C.M., and James Lockhart, The Story of Guadalupe Luis Laso de la Vega’s Huei tlamahuiçoltica of 1649, pages 88-89:
      Tèhuatzin timitzõtzàtzililia, in titotlaçòmahuizNantzin Guadalupe
      To you we cry, you who are our precious revered mother of Guadalupe
    • 1889, Bernardino de Sahagún, translated by Arthur J. O. Anderson, Charles E. Dibble, Florentine Codex‎[2], volume 8, folio 3r:
      'Ca inic onjnozcali njmjtzilhujco. Ca ie ixqujch ca tehoatl moca tzonqujça in tlatocaiotl in mexico ca tehoatl mopan mantiaz in altepetl mexico
      For this reason have I returned to life: I have come to tell thee that thou art come to the end. With thee the reign of Mexico ceaseth; for in thy time the city of Mexico will end.

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