milcalatl
Classical Nahuatl
Noun
milcalatl
- A kind of frog or toad.
- 1555: Alonso de Molina, Aqui comienca un vocabulario en la lengua castellana y mexicana, f. 208r
- Rana otra. milcalatl.
- 16C: Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex, book 11, chapter 4, paragraph 4
- MILCALATL: çan no ach iuhquj in tamaçoli, iece çan tepiton, çan qualli injc chachaquachtic: injc mjtoa mjlcalatl, xopitzactic, cujtlapicictic, cujtlatolontic: ixmacuex.
- (MILCALATL: It is something like the toad, but quite small, of average size. As it is rough, so it is called milcalatl. It is slender-legged; it is very thin [or] very fat. Its eyes are like jewels.)
- 1555: Alonso de Molina, Aqui comienca un vocabulario en la lengua castellana y mexicana, f. 208r
References
- Sahagún, Bernardino de (1963) Florentine Codex, Book 11 - Earthly Things, tr. by Charles E. Dibble & Arthur J. O. Anderson, Salt Lake City: The University of Utah Press, page 73
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