Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern

by Edward B. Tylor

The Aztec c is soft (as s) before e and i, hard (as k) before a, o, u. The Aztec ch as in cheese. I have followed Molina’s orthography in writing such words as uel or vel (English, well) instead of the more modern, but I think less correct way, huel.

1. a-, negative prefix (as qualli, good; aqualli, bad). SANS., a-; GREEK, a-, &c.

2. o-, preterite augment (as nitemachtia, I teach; onitemachti, I taught); SANS., a-; compare GREEK ε-.

3. pal, prep. by: compare SANS. prep., para, back; pari, circum; pra, before; GREEK, παρα; LAT., per.

4. ce-, cen-, cem-, prefix collective (as tlalla, to place, centlalla, to collect); SANS., sa-, san-, sam-; GREEK, συν; LAT., syn.

5. ce, cen-, cem-, one. SANS., sa (in sa-krit, once: comp. Bopp, Gloss., p. 362.) LAT., se-mel, si-mul, sim-plex.

6. metz (metz-tli), moon. SANS., mas.

7. tlal (tlal-li), earth. SANS., tala, dhara. LAT., terra, tellus.

8. citlal (citlal-in), star. SANS., stri, stâra. LAT., stella. Eng., star.

9. atoya (atoya-tl), river. SANS., udya.