necuametl. | Nahuatl Dictionary

Headword:

necuametl.

Principal English Translation:

a small agave, full of thorns, and blue; its roots have a medicinal value
Digital Florentine Codex, https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/book/10/folio/123r and https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/book/11/folio/201r

a type of tree like a palm (and see Molina)
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), 227.

Necuametl = a name for Chichimec country
Hubert Howe Bancroft, The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft (1883), 219.

Orthographic Variants:

Necuametl, nequametl

Alonso de Molina:

nequametl. cierto arbol como palma.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 69r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Lockhart’s Nahuatl as Written:

vowel quantity speculative. 227

Attestations from sources in English:

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

nequametl = Maguey, a name given to boys
Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan, et al. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 254.

ytoca necuametl = named Nequametl (attested as male; someone twenty years old and who had not yet taken a wife) (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), 146–147. See another attestation in another family, 164–165.

Attestations from sources in Spanish:

"Ome Miquiztli Nequametl, nació en Chalchiuhtepec" (Quauhtinchan, s. XVI)
Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca, eds. Paul Kirchhoff, Lina Odena Güemes, y Luis Reyes García (México: CISINAH, INAH-SEP, 1976), 138.

"in Nequametl yaqui zoquiapan oncan ya moteuhctlalia = Nequametl se fue a Zoquiyapan, allá se establece como teuhctli" (Quauhtinchan, s. XVI)
Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca, eds. Paul Kirchhoff, Lina Odena Güemes, y Luis Reyes García (México: CISINAH, INAH-SEP, 1976), 140.

"Auh y nequametl omentin yn iciuaua yn ce ytoca tlatzomani ya quintlacatillia yn ipilhuan za noma o[n]can yn zoquiyapan yntoca chicuacen couatl Macuetzin = Y Nequametl tenía dos mujeres; la una, llamada Tlatzomani, engendró a sus hijos ahí mismo en Zoquiyapan, los llamados: Ciquacen couatl y Macuextzin" (Quauhtinchan, s. XVI)
Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca, eds. Paul Kirchhoff, Lina Odena Güemes, y Luis Reyes García (México: CISINAH, INAH-SEP, 1976), 140.

themes:

Health, Sickness, Wellness, Medicine

Plants, Trees, Flora