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xopan.

Headword:

xopan.

Principal English Translation:

summer (see Molina) or the green time of year (see Karttunen); in spring, in the rainy season

Orthographic Variants:

xonpan, xonpantla

IPAspelling:

ʃoːpɑn

Alonso de Molina:

xopan. verano.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 161r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen:

XŌPAN green time of the year / verano (M) [(1)Cf.88r, (1)Tp.248, (1)Xp.104]. See XŌ-, -PAN.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 331.

Attestations from sources in English:

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

The glyph for Xopanteotl (M771r) from the Matrícula de Huexotzinco, can be found here:
https://aztecglyphs.wired-humanities.org/content/xopanteotl-mh771r

xopan (noun) = the springtime
Daniel Garrison Brinton, Ancient Nahuatl Poetry: Containing the Nahuatl Text of XXVII Ancient Mexican Poems (1877), 168.

y yevatini ya quinovallaque xopa = They just came in the spring. (Cuernavaca region, ca. 1540s)
The Book of Tributes: Early Sixteenth-Century Nahuatl Censuses from Morelos, ed. and transl. S. L. Cline, (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center Publications, 1993), 274–275.

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