ecachichinqui.

Headword:

ecachichinqui.

Principal English Translation:

Merlin, a bird (see Hunn, attestations)

Orthographic Variants:

ehecachichinqui

Attestations from sources in English:

ECA-CHICH-INQUI, literally, “wind sucker,” Merlin (Falco columbarius) [FC: 45 ecachichinqui]. This is one of several synonyms cited under the heading of NECUILOC-TLI. See also CENOTZQUI, TLETLEUH-TON.
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 11 – Earthly Things, no. 14, Part XII, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1963); and, E. S. Hunn, "The Aztec Fascination with Birds: Deciphering Sixteenth-Century Sources," unpublished manuscript, 2022, cited here with permission.

themes:

Animals, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, Fish, etc.