Mexihco
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Central Nahuatl[edit]
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Mexihco (locative)
- Mexico (a country in North America)
- México (a state of Mexico)
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Classical Nahuatl[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Uncertain. Popularly thought to derive from the stems mētztli (“moon”) + xīctli (“navel”) + the locative -co, which would yield *Mēxxīcco (“at the place of the moon's navel”). The form Mēxihco would thus imply the degemination of [ʃː] and the dissimilation of [kk] to [ʔk], with the appearance of the glottal stop automatically triggering the shortening of the preceding [iː] to [i].
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Mēxihco (locative)
- Tenochtitlan; a city and capital of the Aztec empire.
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References[edit]
- Frances Karttunen (1992) An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl, University of Oklahoma Press, page 145
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