chijchal
Aráuz (1960) · Nahuizalco
- Spanish
- saliva
- Note
- Arauz: f.
chijchal
noun/chij·chal/
Nantzin Andrea López (elder) · Santo Domingo de Guzmán · Timumachtikan Nawat
Meanings
- 1
saliva
Documented in Nahuizalco: Aráuz (1960), recorded about 1915–1924, Izalco: Schultze Jena (1935), recorded 1930, Santo Domingo de Guzmán: Campbell (1985), recorded 1970–1976
Sources: Aráuz (1960), Schultze Jena (1935), Campbell (1985), Hernández (2019), Ordóñez (2026)
Forms
- possessed form
- ichijchal · Sources: Ordóñez (2026)
Pronunciation
Nantzin Andrea López (elder) · Santo Domingo de Guzmán
recorded by Alicia Elena Pacheco Pérez · CC BY-SA 4.0 (opens in a new tab) · Timumachtikan Nawat (opens in a new tab) · audio adapted by nahuat.com
In the texts
- chijchalonce
The records this word rests on, as each source gives them, with reading errors from the scans corrected.
- čiχčalin Alan King's standard spelling: chijchal
Schultze Jena (1935) · Izalco
- Spanish
- saliva
- chihchalin Alan King's standard spelling: chijchal
Campbell (1985) · Santo Domingo de Guzmán
- Town
- Santo Domingo de Guzmán (W)
- Spanish
- saliva
- English
- saliva, spittle
- Possessed
- -chihchal
- See also
- chihcha "to spit", -l 'passive nominalization'
- On the etymology
- CN cf. chichitl (Mol.); PN *chihchV-
- See also
- (C) tachichal
- Chijchal
Hernández (2019) · No town
- Spanish
- saliva
- As printed
- Chijchal saliva
- chijchal
Ordóñez (2026) · No town
- Definition
- saliva, baba (de babosa), tela o seda (animales). Wan ne ichijchal kichiwa ne ikal pal musaluat ne mujmuyut pal takwat (ne tujtukat) Con su tela hace su casa para que se peguen las moscar y así coman (las arañas)
sus ina.- As printed
- chijchal sus ina. saliva, baba (de babosa), tela o seda (animales). Wan ne ichijchal kichiwa ne ikal pal musaluat ne mujmuyut pal takwat (ne tujtukat) Con su tela hace su casa para que se peguen las moscar y así coman (las arañas)
Sources
- Aráuz, El Pipil de la Región de los Itzalcos (1960), recorded about 1915–1924
- Schultze Jena, Mythen in der Muttersprache der Pipil von Izalco (1935), recorded 1930
- Campbell, The Pipil Language of El Salvador (1985), recorded 1970–1976
- Hernández, Nawat Mujmusta (2019)
- Ordóñez, Diccionario náhuat (2026)