Re: Chocolate?
| From: | Rob Nierse <rnierse@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, February 23, 2002, 1:43 |
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>Nope. Can't.
>But in Eviendadhail, it's either socólath or ailai ('foam', from Mayan
>xhoclatl, 'frothy water'.)
>I've thought long and hard about this.
>-M
Just nitpicking:
'xoclatl' is from Aztec origin, recognisable by the 'x'
(a retroflex sibilant) and the ending -tl for nouns.
The meaning is stil debated, as far as I know.
Cacao is definitely Mayan [kakaw], see the glyph on
http://homepage.mac.com/mayaglyphs/page097.html
on the bottom row, third from the left.
Rob