tecumatin Alan King's standard spelling: tekumat
Aráuz (1960) · Nahuizalco
- Spanish
- calabazo, cantimplora
- Note
- Arauz: m. Bot.
- Form (inferred by King)
- tejtekumat
- Meaning (Spanish)
- calabazos
- Note
- Arauz: m. pl.
tekumat
noun/te·ku·mat/
Tajtzin Francisco Tepas (elder) · Nahuizalco · Lyle Campbell
Meanings
- 1
gourd canteen
Documented in Nahuizalco: Aráuz (1960), recorded about 1915–1924, Izalco: Schultze Jena (1935), recorded 1930, Cuisnahuat: Campbell (1985), recorded 1970–1976
Sources: Aráuz (1960), Schultze Jena (1935), Campbell (1985), King (2011a), Hernández (2019), Ordóñez (2026)
Forms
- plural
- tejtekumat · Sources: Aráuz (1960), Campbell (1985)
Pronunciation
Tajtzin Francisco Tepas (elder) · Nahuizalco
recorded by Lyle Campbell · Lyle Campbell · audio adapted by nahuat.com
In the texts
- tekumat14 times
- tejtekumatonce
The records this word rests on, as each source gives them, with reading errors from the scans corrected.
- tekumat
Schultze Jena (1935) · Izalco
- Spanish
- tecomate
- tekuma-tin Alan King's standard spelling: tekumat
Campbell (1985) · Cuisnahuat, Santo Domingo de Guzmán
- Town
- Cuisnahuat (Q)
- Spanish
- tecomate
- English
- bottle gourd, gourd for water, gourd canteen
- Possessed
- -tekun
- Example
- nu-tekun
- my water gourd
- Pronunciation
- [neteku?]
- Plural
- tehtekumat
- On the etymology
- CN tekomatl (Car.) vaso; tecomatl (Sim.) árbol cuyo fruto es una especie de calabaza que servía de vasija
- Town
- Santo Domingo de Guzmán (W)
- Pronunciation
- [tegumat]
- tekumat
King (2011a) · No town
- Spanish
- tecomate
- English
- gourd (kind of)
- posesivo
- -tekun
- See also
- ashishtekun
- See also
- tzuntekumat
- See also
- tzuntekun
sustantivo - Tekumat
Hernández (2019) · No town
- Possessed
- -tekum
- Spanish
- tecomate
- As printed
- Tekumat, -tekum tecomate
- tekumat
Ordóñez (2026) · No town
- Scientific name
- Lagenaria Leucantha
- Definition
- nutekun [Lagenaria Leucantha ] tecomate. Naja nikneki se nutekun pal nikwika at Yo quiero un tecomate para llevar agua
sus.- As printed
- tekumat sus. nutekun [Lagenaria Leucantha ] tecomate. Naja nikneki se nutekun pal nikwika at Yo quiero un tecomate para llevar agua
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
- King, Léxico del Náhuat Básico (2011), recorded 2004–2008
- Hernández, Nawat Mujmusta (2019)
- Ordóñez, Diccionario náhuat (2026)