Comments: MEXICAN AND GEOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARIES.

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Posted by mj at August 30, 2005 06:49 PM

I am slightly bugged that lexicographers insist on quoting all Nahuatl nouns with the nominative suffix -tl intact. It would make much more sense to give the noun stem, perhaps with a trailing hyphen to assuage the guilt that might arise from citing a form that never actually appears in the language as an isolated word: aca-. In compound words like acapolco, this would make a lot of sense, and would not leave people wondering whether the tl dropped because of cluster simplification or something even more nefarious.

But I suspect that lexicographers think that most of the fun of citing Nahuatl is getting to say tl. And it is fun, no mistake.

Posted by ACW at August 30, 2005 08:42 PM

Well, Latin nouns are sometimes cited in nominative forms and sometimes as stems; you can make arguments either way. And I suspect most people who can make use of Nahua(tl) etymologies are aware that the -tl is an ending.

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