aquiton. | Nahuatl Dictionary

aquiton.

Headword:

aquiton.

Principal English Translation:

a little bit (see Carochi and Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants:

aquitzin

IPAspelling:

ɑkihtoːn

Frances Karttunen:

AQUIHTŌN a bit / un poco (C)[(3)Cf.125v]. See ACHIHTŌN.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 12.

Horacio Carochi / English:

àquitōn = a little
Horacio Carochi, S.J., Grammar of the Mexican language with an explanation of its adverbs (1645), translated and edited with commentary by James Lockhart, UCLA Latin American Studies Volume 89 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, UCLA Latin American Center Publications, 2001), 462–63, 497.

Attestations from sources in Spanish:

Aquitzin, y aquitón, tambien significa: Vn poco.
Horacio Carochi, Grammar of the Mexican Language, traducido por ‎James Lockhart (2002), 462.

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