Classical Nahuatl

Noun

chināmitl

1. A fence of canes or cornstalks.
   • 1571: Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, f. 21r. col. 1.

     chinamitl. seto o cerca de cañas.

     (chinamitl. a hedge or fence of canes.)

2. An area so enclosed, or the canes or cornstalks themselves.
3. A chinampa, an agricultural strip.
4. An urban division, the subunit of an altepetl.

Derived terms

Descendants

• Spanish: chinampa

References

• “chinamitl” in the Nahuatl Dictionary, University of Oregon, 2011.