cochitlehualli.

Headword:

cochitlehualli.

Principal English Translation:

dream (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants:

cochihtlēhualli

IPAspelling:

kotʃihtɬeːwɑlli

Frances Karttunen:

COCHIHTLĒHUAL-LI dream / sueño, ensueño (S) [(2)Cf.93v,114v]. See COCHIHTLĒHUA.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 36.

Attestations from sources in English:

in oqujmotlanevi in atl in tepetl, in oqujtemjc, in oqujcochitleuh = The city borrowed him; [it seemed that] it dreamed of him, it saw him in dreams (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 6 -- Rhetoric and Moral Philosophy, No. 14, Part 7, 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), 47.

themes:

Dreams, Visions