Search Issues: Update 2026-09-16 - Repairs to some of our search pages are ongoing. Thank you for your continued patience!

Meanwhile, elements of the Advanced Search are working and the Alphabetical Listings are working, too.

huetzitia.

Headword: 
huetzitia.
Principal English Translation: 

to take a seat

James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 218.

Orthographic Variants: 
huetziltia, uetzitia
IPAspelling: 
wetsiːtiɑː
Alonso de Molina: 

uetzitia. nino. (pret. oninouetziti.) assentarse persona de calidad.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 156v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

HUETZĪTIĀ altern. caus. HUETZ(I). HUETZ(I) to fall / caer (M).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 87.

Lockhart’s Nahuatl as Written: 

nino. causative reverential of huetzi, usually meaning to take a seat. 218

Attestations from sources in English: 

huetzītia = let fall Michel Launey, An Introduction to Classical Nahuatl, translated and adapted by Christopher MacKay (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011), 190.