pilpil

Reduplication of pil (“red”).

pilpil

1. blood

From pilli (“child”) +‎ -pīl. Molina attests the plural form pīpilpipīl, from which the singular form can be deduced. Sahagún attests the singular form with the meaning (“five or six year-old child”). The plural form, as described by Carochi, is notable for its mirrored relative vowel length, resulting from the reduplication of both the stem pilli (“child”) (plural pīpiltin) and the diminutive postposition -pil, which undergoes short-vowel reduplication when pluralized (-pipīl).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpiɬpiːɬ/

pilpīl (animate, plural pīpilpipīl)

1. diminutive of pilli; a child or youth.
   • 1571: Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, f. 82r. col. 2.

     Pipilpipil.muchachuelos.

     Pipilpipil.youngsters [boys or young men].

• piltōntli
• piltzintli

• Frances Karttunen (1992) An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl, University of Oklahoma Press, page 43
• Horacio Carochi (2001) Grammar of the Mexican Language, with an Explanation of its Adverbs (1645), translated and edited by James Lockhart, Stanford: Stanford University Press, page 43
• Alonso de Molina (2008) Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana (1571), Mexico: Editorial Porrúa, page 82