xocpalli. | Nahuatl Dictionary

xocpalli.

Headword:

xocpalli.

Principal English Translation:

the sole of the foot (see Molina)

IPAspelling:

ʃokpɑlli

Alonso de Molina:

xocpalli. planta del pie.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 160v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen:

XOCPAL-LI sole of the foot / planta del pie (M) In T this is used as the name of a red wasp. See XO-, (I)CPAL-LI.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 330.

Attestations from sources in English:

See an image that represents icxopolli in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).

Attestations from sources in Spanish:

huel temamauhti tteocuitlatescatl, quetzallitznacochtli, moch teocuitlatl yn ixocpal tteocuitlacotzehuatl contlalitiuh = [Axayacatzin] se veia imponente, con su espejo de oro, con sus orejeras de obsidiana fina, con sus sandalinas todas de oro, con las ajorcas de oro que llevaba ceñidas. (Mexico City, c. 1572)
Ana Rita Valero de García Lascuráin and Rafael Tena, Códice Cozcatzin (México: Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, 1994), 104.

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Anatomy