Classical Nahuatl

Alternative forms

• çahuatl
• çáhuátl, çăhuătl (Carochi)

Noun

zahuatl

1. Pox; rash.
   • 17C: Chimalpahin, "Don Gabriel de Ayala's Year Count", f. 80r.

     ¶ xi calli xihuitl 1529 años ypan in çahuatl momanaco totomonihuac

     (The year Eleven House, 1529. At this time smallpox prevailed; there were blisters.)

   • 1645: Horacio Carochi, Arte de la lengua mexicana con la declaración de los adverbios della, f. 127r.

     Çáhuátl, ambas breues, sarna, ò viruelas, ò cosas semejante.

     (Çahuatl, with both vowels short, rash, smallpox, or the like.)

Derived terms

• huei zahuatl

References

• Carochi, Horacio (2001) Grammar of the Mexican Language, with an Explanation of its Adverbs (1645), trans. and ed. by James Lockhart, Stanford: Stanford University Press, pages 468–469
• Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, Domingo Francisco de San Antón Muñón (1997) Codex Chimalpahin, trans. and ed. by Arthur J. O. Anderson and Susan Schroeder, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, pages 236–237
• Karttunen, Frances (1983) An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl, Austin: University of Texas Press, page 345