English

Proper noun

Olin

1. A city in Iowa
2. A village in Poland

Norwegian

Proper noun

Olin

1. (rare) A female given name, variant of Oline.

Classical Nahuatl

The glyph for the day sign olīn “quake”, from the Codex Magliabechiano.

Alternative forms

• ollin, uli (obsolete spellings)

Noun

olīn ‎(inanimate)

1. (it is) the seventeenth of the twenty day signs of the tōnalpōhualli; a conceptual depiction of movement as two intertwining bands of color.
   • 16th c.: Codex Magliabechiano, f. 13r.

     chicume uli la / primera . silab / breue. y laul ti / ma luenga. q / quiere dezir ti / en. tienble latie / rra.

     chicume uli. the first syllab[le] short, and the last one long. which means “[seven] the earth shakes”.

Usage notes

• Similarly to cipactli, the translation of the day sign olīn varies. Andrews proposes “quake”, though “movement”, suggested by the root verb olīnia ‎(“to move with difficulty”), is a more common translation.

Related terms

• olīnini

References

• Rémi Siméon (1885) Diccionario de la lengua náhuatl o mexicana, Siglo Veintiuno Editores, page 354
• Laurette Séjourné (1981) El pensamiento náhuatl cifrado por los calendarios, Siglo Veintiuno Editores, page 32

Estonian

Verb

olin

1. first-person singular past indicative of olema

Finnish

Verb

olin

1. First-person singular indicative past form of olla.

   • Minä olin iloinen.
     • I was happy.

Anagrams

• ilon, lino, loin