Re: interestin' gamelang?: Cuotl from 'Rise of Nations: Rise of Legends'

On 4/17/07, andrew <hobbit@...> wrote:
> On Monday 16 April 2007 11:43 pm, Henrik Theiling wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > Hanuman Zhang writes:
> > >...
> > > Lately I have been ponderin' the idea of a parallel/futuristic
> > > Mayan-like conlang called Xibalbatecatl...
> >
> > The name looks like more like Aztecan.  I was thinking about a
> > Nahuatl-phonology language recently, too.  The grammar will be
> > totally different, though.
> >
> A quick check shows that Xibalba is a name from Mayan mythology, the
> home of the Lords of Death defeated by the heroes.  I cannot speculate
> on the second half of the name of Hanuman's language.
>
-tecatl is, so far as I can tell, the way you derive words (nouns?
adjectives?) meaning "from X".  So "Xibalbatecatl" would mean "from
Xibalba", or something like that.

I believe it's the source of all the "-tec" words for people down
there: Toltec, Zapotec, Yucatec, Aztec, etc.

-- Pat

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