imeymetatin Alan King's standard spelling: metat
Aráuz (1960) · Nahuizalco
- Spanish
- piedra (de moler)
imey metat
- Spanish
- piedra (mano de)
metat
noun/me·tat/
Meanings
- 1
grinding stone, metate
Kitemuat se siwat ma yawi tisi tik se metat.
They find a woman to go and grind it on a grinding stone.
Documented in Nahuizalco: Aráuz (1960), recorded about 1915–1924, Todd (1953), Izalco: Schultze Jena (1935), recorded 1930, The Izalcos (Izalco and Nahuizalco): Baratta (1951), Cuisnahuat: Campbell (1985), recorded 1970–1976
Sources: Aráuz (1960), Schultze Jena (1935), Baratta (1951), Todd (1953), Campbell (1985), King (2011a), Hernández (2019), Ordóñez (2026)
Forms
- plural
- mejmetat · Sources: Campbell (1985)
- possessed form
- numetfirst person singular possessor · Sources: Campbell (1985), King (2011a)
In the texts
The records this word rests on, as each source gives them, with reading errors from the scans corrected.
- metat
Todd (1953) · Nahuizalco
- Spanish
- piedra de moler
- metat
Schultze Jena (1935) · Izalco
- Spanish
- metate, piedra de moler
- Métatin nahuat.com's standard spelling: metat
Baratta (1951) · p. 292 · The Izalcos (Izalco and Nahuizalco)
- Spanish
- Piedra de moler
- As printed
- Piedra de moler — Métat
- meta-tin Alan King's standard spelling: metat
Campbell (1985) · Cuisnahuat, Santo Domingo de Guzmán
- Town
- Cuisnahuat (Q)
- Spanish
- piedra de moler
- Spanish
- metate
- English
- quern, metate
- Possessed
- -met
- Example
- nu-met
- my metate
- Plural
- mehmetat
- On the etymology
- CN metlatl (Sim.); PN *mëtla-
- Town
- Santo Domingo de Guzmán (W)
- metat
King (2011a) · No town
- Spanish
- piedra de moler
- Spanish
- 'metate'
- English
- grinding stone
- posesivo
- -met: numet
sustantivo - Metat
Hernández (2019) · No town
- Spanish
- piedra de moler, metate
- As printed
- Metat piedra de moler, metate
- metat
Ordóñez (2026) · No town
- Definition
- numet metate, piedra de moler.
sus.- As printed
- metat sus. numet metate, piedra de moler.
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
- Baratta, Cuzcatlán típico (1951)
- Todd, Notas del náhuat de Nahuizalco (1953)
- Campbell, The Pipil Language of El Salvador (1985), recorded 1970–1976
- King, Léxico del Náhuat Básico (2011), recorded 2004–2008
- Hernández, Nawat Mujmusta (2019)
- Ordóñez, Diccionario náhuat (2026)