Nahuat

-tenshipal

inalienable noun

/ten·shi·pal/

Nantzin Alejandra García (elder) · Santo Domingo de Guzmán · Timumachtikan Nawat

Meanings

  1. 1

    lip

    Documented in , , ,

    Sources: Aráuz (1960), Schultze Jena (1935), Baratta (1951), Todd (1953), Campbell (1985), King (2011a), 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

plural
tejtenshipalSources: King (2011a)
possessed form
itenshipalSources: Schultze Jena (1935), King (2011a)nutenshipalSources: Ordóñez (2026)

Pronunciation

In the texts

The records this word rests on, as each source gives them, with reading errors from the scans corrected.

  • tenxipalin Alan King's standard spelling: tenshipal

    Aráuz (1960) · Nahuizalco

    Spanish
    labio
    Note
    Arauz: m.
  • tenshipal

    Todd (1953) · Nahuizalco

    Spanish
    labio
  • tenšipalin Alan King's standard spelling: tenshipal

    Schultze Jena (1935) · Izalco

    Spanish
    labio
  • tumak

    Schultze Jena (1935) · Izalco

    Spanish
    hinchado
    Alan King's note
    In the Masin corpus only occurs twice, in a single story (6), both times in the phrase "se/ne takat tumak itenshipal". It seems to be a variant of tumawak (qv), but some speakers in Witzapan use it for "big", for which the general word is wey, but this has largely been usurped colloquially in Witzapan by the loanword hombron.
  • Tenshípalshin nahuat.com's standard spelling: tenshipal

    Baratta (1951) · p. 291 · The Izalcos (Izalco and Nahuizalco)

    Spanish
    Labio
    As printed
    Labio — Tenshípalsh
  • -te:nxi:palin Alan King's standard spelling: tenshipal

    Campbell (1985) · Cuisnahuat, Santo Domingo de Guzmán

    Town
    Cuisnahuat (Q)
    Spanish
    labio
    Spanish
    jeta
    English
    lip, snout
    Example
    i-te:nxi:pal
    its snout
    See also
    te:n "mouth", (?) "to skin"
    On the etymology
    CN tenxipalli (Sim.) gran labio
    Town
    Santo Domingo de Guzmán (W)
    Spanish
    jeta
    Spanish
    labio de animal
    English
    snout, animal's lip
    Example
    i-te:nxi:pal
    its lip
    Pronunciation
    [ite:?xi:pał]
  • ten

    King (2011a) · No town

    sustantivo siempre poseído
    Spanish
    boca
    English
    mouth
    Example
    Ne iten patak ishyekchin
    Su boca es muy linda.
    plural
    -tejten
    relacional
    Spanish
    al borde
    Spanish
    borde
    English
    at the edge
    English
    edge
    Example
    Naka ten tiupan
    Se queda en la puerta de la iglesia.
    Example
    Ajsik ten at
    Llegó a la orilla del río.
    Example
    ten ne achín
    en la orilla del arroyo.
    Example
    Ne ejelut nemit ten kushtal
    Los elotes están en el borde del saco.
    tennamiki
    verbo transitivo
    Spanish
    besar
    English
    kiss
    plural
    presente
    kitennamiki, niktennamiki
    pretérito
    -tennamik
    -tenshipal
    sustantivo siempre poseído
    Spanish
    labio
    English
    lip
    plural
    -tejtenshipal
    tentapua
    Main entry
    tapua
    tentzakwa
    Main entry
    tzakwa
  • tumak

    King (2011a) · No town

    adjetivo
    Spanish
    grueso
    English
    thick
    Example
    se takat tumak itenshipal
    un hombre de labios gruesos.
    plural
    tujtumak
  • -Tenshipalin nahuat.com's standard spelling: Tenshipal

    Hernández (2019) · No town

    sustantivo inalienable
    Spanish
    labio
    As printed
    -Tenshipal labio
  • tenshipal

    Ordóñez (2026) · No town

    sus ina.
    Definition
    jeta, labios de animal, labios de persona. Chichinaka nutenshipal Arden mis labios
    As printed
    tenshipal sus ina. jeta, labios de animal, labios de persona. Chichinaka nutenshipal Arden mis labios

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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)