ticuahuitin Alan King's standard spelling: tikwawit
Aráuz (1960) · Nahuizalco
- Spanish
- chamizo, tizón
- Note
- Arauz: m.
tikwawit
noun/ti·kwa·wit/
Tajtzin Nicolas Sánchez (elder) · Santo Domingo de Guzmán · Timumachtikan Nawat
Meanings
- 1
firebrand, burning stick
Documented in Nahuizalco: Aráuz (1960), recorded about 1915–1924, Todd (1953), Cuisnahuat: Campbell (1985), recorded 1970–1976
Sources: Aráuz (1960), Todd (1953), Campbell (1985), Hernández (2019), Ordóñez (2026)
Forms
- plural
- tijtikwawit · Sources: Todd (1953), Campbell (1985)
Pronunciation
Tajtzin Nicolas Sánchez (elder) · Santo Domingo de Guzmán
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The records this word rests on, as each source gives them, with reading errors from the scans corrected.
- ticuauitin Alan King's standard spelling: tikwawit
Todd (1953) · Nahuizalco
- Spanish
- braza, tizón
tijtikwawit
- Spanish
- tizón
- Alan King's note
- pl. tijticuauit
- tikwawi-tin Alan King's standard spelling: tikwawit
Campbell (1985) · Cuisnahuat, Santo Domingo de Guzmán
- Town
- Cuisnahuat (Q)
- Spanish
- tizón
- English
- firebrand, burning firewood
- Possessed
- -tikwaw
- Example
- nu-tikwaw
- my firebrand
- Plural
- tihtikwawit
- See also
- ti- 'fire', kwawi-t "tree, wood"
- On the etymology
- CN cf. tlequauitl (Mol.) tizón
- Town
- Santo Domingo de Guzmán (W)
- Tikwawit
Hernández (2019) · No town
- Spanish
- tizón
- As printed
- Tikwawit tizón
- tikwawit
Ordóñez (2026) · No town
- Definition
- tizón.
sus.- As printed
- tikwawit sus. tizón.
Sources
- Aráuz, El Pipil de la Región de los Itzalcos (1960), recorded about 1915–1924
- Todd, Notas del náhuat de Nahuizalco (1953)
- Campbell, The Pipil Language of El Salvador (1985), recorded 1970–1976
- Hernández, Nawat Mujmusta (2019)
- Ordóñez, Diccionario náhuat (2026)