michhuah

Classical Nahuatl

FWOTD – 31 January 2016

Alternative forms

• michuâ, Michhuâ (Carochi)
• mjchoaque (plural)

Etymology

michin (“fish”) +‎ -huah (“possessor of”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mitʃwaʔ/

Noun

michhuah (animate, plural michhuahqueh)

1. (he or she is) one who has or holds fish.
   • 1645, Horacio Carochi, Arte de la lengua mexicana con la declaración de los adverbios della, f. 18v:

     De michin, pescado sale michuâ, dueño de pescado
     (From michin, fish, comes michuâ, owner of fish)

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. (he or she is) an inhabitant of Michoacán; a Tarascan or P'urhépecha.
   • 16C, Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex, Book 1

     In amehoantin, in njcan antlaca, in nueue españa: in anmexica, in antlaxcalteca, in ancolulteca, in anmjchoaque

     (You who are natives in New Spain, you Mexicans, you Tlaxcalans, you Cholulans, you Michoaca)

   • 1645, Horacio Carochi, Arte de la lengua mexicana con la declaración de los adverbios della, f. 57r:

     Michhuàcān, Mechoacan. Michhuâ, natural de Mechoacan; y tambien significa dueño de pescado.
     (Michhuàcān, Michoacan, and Michhuâ, native of Michoacan, and also possessor of fish.)

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Synonyms

• Michhuahcatl

Derived terms

• Michhuahcan
• michhuahcayotl

References

• Andrews, J. Richard (2003) Workbook for Introduction to Classical Nahuatl, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, page 236
• Carochi, Horacio (2001) James Lockhart, transl., Grammar of the Mexican Language, with an Explanation of its Adverbs (1645), Stanford: Stanford University Press, pages 78–79
• Karttunen, Frances (1983) An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl, Austin: University of Texas Press, page 146
• Sahagún, Bernardino de (1981) Arthur J. O. Anderson, Charles E. Dibble, transl., Florentine Codex, Book 1 - The Gods, Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, page 55