-tempan
relational word/tem·pan/
Meanings
- 1
edge, bank, shore; at the edge of
Documented in Izalco: Schultze Jena (1935), King's index, recorded 1930, The Izalcos (Izalco and Nahuizalco): Baratta (1951), Cuisnahuat: Campbell (1985), recorded 1970–1976
Sources: Schultze Jena (1935), King's index, Baratta (1951), Campbell (1985), Hernández (2019), Ordóñez (2026)
The hyphen marks a word never said alone: it always takes a possessive prefix: nu- my · mu- your · i- his or her
Forms
- possessed form
- itempanthird person singular possessor · Sources: Ordóñez (2026)
In the texts
- itenpan4 times
The records this word rests on, as each source gives them, with reading errors from the scans corrected.
- IzalcotempanKing's standard: tenpanen la orilla
- The Izalcos (Izalco and Nahuizalco)TenpanOrilla
- Cuisnahuat-te:mpanKing's standard: tenpanedge, border, brink, bank, shore
- No town-Tenpannahuat.com's standard: Tenpanorilla
- No townitenpanla orilla de. Yaja nemi ka itenpan ne apan, itenpan ne ustut Él está en la orilla del río, en la orilla del barranco
Sources
- Schultze Jena, Mythen in der Muttersprache der Pipil von Izalco (1935), recorded 1930
- Baratta, Cuzcatlán típico (1951)
- Campbell, The Pipil Language of El Salvador (1985), recorded 1970–1976
- Hernández, Nawat Mujmusta (2019)
- Ordóñez, Diccionario náhuat (2026)