matlalzahuatl.

Headword:

matlalzahuatl.

Principal English Translation:

a disease involving skin eruptions

IPAspelling:

mɑːtɬɑːlsɑwɑtɬ

Frances Karttunen:

MĀTLĀLZAHUA-TL pox / viruela (Z) [(2)Zp. 130, 166]. This is literally ‘green pox.’ See MĀTLĀL-IN, ZAHUA-TL.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 139.

Attestations from sources in English:

-zahuatl = a suffix that points to cutaneous eruptions
Carlos Viesca Tl, Andrés Aranda C., Mariblanca Ramos de Viesca, "Antecedentes para el estudio de la clasificación de las enfermedades en la medicina náhuatl prehispánica," Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl, 30 (enero 1999), 189.

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