ciacatl. | Nahuatl Dictionary

ciacatl.

Headword:

ciacatl.

Principal English Translation:

the armpit (see Molina)

IPAspelling:

siɑkɑtɬ

Alonso de Molina:

ciacatl. sobaco.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 22r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen:

CIAC(A)-TL armpit / sobaco (M) [(2)Cf.82r]. Because the sequence is internal, it is impossible to determine if it should be IA or IYA.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 33.

Attestations from sources in English:

ciacatl = armpit;
comoltic = hollowed;
iamanqui = warm;
tzonio = hairy;
picqui = firm;
comoliui = it becomes hollowed;
mopiqui = it comes together;
tzonixoa = hair forms
ciacatzontli = armpit hair
caciltic = sparse
chamaoac = coarse
iaque = pointed
iacauitztic = of pointed end
iacapitzaoac = tapering
ixoa = it forms
chamaoa = it becomes coarse
mozcaltia = it grows
ueiaquia = it grows long (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 10 -- The People, No. 14, Part 11, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1961), 117.