tzitzilinia. | Nahuatl Dictionary

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Headword:

tzitzilinia.

Principal English Translation:

to ring bells (see Molina)

IPAspelling:

tsitsiliniɑ

Alonso de Molina:

tzitzilinia. nitla. (pret. onitlatzitzilini.) repicar campanas.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 153r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English:

nopampa tzinliniz micatepoztli = the bells are to be rung for me
Caterina Pizzigoni, ed., Testaments of Toluca (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Center Publications, 2007), 53.

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