Mexihco
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Central Nahuatl
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Mexihco (locative)
- Mexico (a country in North America)
- México (a state of Mexico)
Derived terms
[edit]Classical Nahuatl
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Uncertain; popularly thought to derive from a compound of mētztli (“moon”) + xīctli (“navel”) + -co (locative suffix), which would yield *Mēxxīcco (literally “place on 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].
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Mēxihco (locative)
- Tenochtitlan (the capital of the Aztec Empire; modern Mexico City)
Synonyms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Spanish: México (see there for further descendants)
References
[edit]- Frances Karttunen (1992) An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl, University of Oklahoma Press, page 145
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- Central Nahuatl terms with IPA pronunciation
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- nhn:Mexico
- nhn:Countries in North America
- nhn:Countries
- nhn:States of Mexico
- nhn:Places in Mexico
- Milpa Alta Central Nahuatl
- Classical Nahuatl terms with unknown etymologies
- Classical Nahuatl compound terms
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- Classical Nahuatl lemmas
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- nci:Capital cities