ixhuiuhtli

• yxhuiuhtli
• yxuiuhtli

• IPA^(key): /iʃwiːwtɬi/

ixhuīuhtli

1. grandchild
   • 1555, Alonso de Molina, Aqui comienca un vocabulario en la lengua castellana y mexicana, f. 180v:

     Nieto o nieta. yxuiuhtli. teixuiuh.
     [...]
     Nietos deſcendientes abaxo. tepilhuan.teixuiuan.

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   • c. 1609, Tezozomoc, Chimalpahin, Cronica mexicayotl, f. 18v.

     in tehuantin yn titepilhuan yn titeyxhuihuan yn titeyccatotonhuan yn titemintotonhuan yn titepiptotonhuan yn titechichicahuan. yn titetlapallohuan yn titeheçohuan

     we sons, grandsons, younger brothers, great-great-grandchildren, great-grandchildren, we, their descendants, their offspring

2. a polite term for a ruler
   • c. 1609, Tezozomoc, Chimalpahin, Cronica mexicayotl, f. 32r–v.

     quilhuia. totecuiyoye noxhuiuhtzine. tlacatle tlahtohuanie timitztotlalcahualtizque. timitztotlapololtizque. yn timomacehualhuan. ca mitzmotlatlauhtilia. yn mocolhuan
     (They said to him: Our lord, my grandson, lord, ruler, we [do not wish to] make you forgetful, to confuse and distract you, we who are your subjects. We beg you, we your grandfathers)

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• Usually occurs with a possessive prefix.

• Andrews, J. Richard (2003) Workbook for Introduction to Classical Nahuatl, rev. ed. edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, page 231
• Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, Domingo Francisco de San Antón Muñón (1997) Arthur J. O. Anderson, Susan Schroeder, transl., Codex Chimalpahin, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, pages vol. 1, pp. 60–61, 96–97
• Karttunen, Frances (1983) An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl, Austin: University of Texas Press, page 114
• Lockhart, James (2001) Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts, Stanford: Stanford University Press, page 221