opochmaitl. | Nahuatl Dictionary

Headword:

opochmaitl.

Principal English Translation:

the left hand (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants:

ōpōchmāitl, opuchmaitl, pochmaitl

IPAspelling:

oːpoːtʃmɑːitɬ

Alonso de Molina:

opochmaitl. mano yzquierda.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 77v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

opuchmaitl. mano yzquierda.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 77v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen:

ŌPŌCHMĀ(I)-TL the left hand / mano izquierda (M) [(2)Cf.82r,(2)Zp.81,180]. ŌPŌCH-TLI, MĀ(I)-TL.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 179.

Attestations from sources in English:

njman oiauh, opuchmaie, qujn iehoatl qujmamimictia, qujmaiauj, qujtentimaiauj: injn ipan mixeoaia in opuchtli = then came one who was left-handed. He then wounded his arm and threw him flat upon the surface. This one appeared as [the god] Opochtli. (16th century, Mexico City)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 2—The Ceremonies, No. 14, Part III, 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, 1951), 51.

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