malinalli

Classical Nahuatl

The glyph corresponding to the day ōme malīnalli (“two twisted straw”), as depicted in the codex Magliabechiano.

Alternative forms

Etymology

From malīna (to twist) + -lli.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ma.liːˈná.lːi]

Noun

malīnalli (inanimate)

  1. (it is) a twisted or braided grass stalk used as a building material
  2. (it is) the twelfth of the twenty day signs of the tōnalpōhualli; a bundle of grass growing from a human jaw
    • 16th c., Codex Magliabechiano, f. 12v.
      Vme maljnalj / q quiere dezir dos / yeruas deſte / nonbre por q tor / çer quiere dezir / maljnale
      Vme maljnalj. which means “two weeds of this name”, because maljnale is also to say “to twist”.
  • (plants used as a building material): ocōzacatl, zacacuēitl

References

  • Rémi Siméon (1885) Diccionario de la lengua náhuatl o mexicana, Siglo Veintiuno Editores, page 251
  • Krystyna M. Libura (2002) Los días y dioses del Códice Borgia, Ediciones Tecolote, page 13
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