Classical Nahuatl

Alternative forms

• tiçatl

Noun

tīzatl

1. whitewash (a varnish of white earth)
   • 1571: Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, f. 113r. col. 1.

     tizatl. cierto barniz, o tierra blanca.

     (tizatl. a certain varnish, or white earth.)

2. chalk
   • c1558-1561: Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros memoriales, 103.

     Yxaval tiçatl.

     (her facial paint is chalk)

Derived terms

• chīmaltīzatl
• tīzatlālli

Descendants

• Spanish: tiza, tizate

References

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