Tollan
Appearance
Classical Nahuatl
Alternative forms
Etymology
tōlin (“rushes”) + -tlān (“place”).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Tōllān
- Tollan/Tula.
- 17C: Chimalpahin, "History or Chronicle with Its Calendar of the Mexica Years"
- ye yuh nepa matlactlōmahio xihuitl, opoliuh yn altepetl Tullam, ynic cenmanque momoyahuaque nonohualca Tullam tlaca
- (it was fourteen years after the altepetl of Tollan had been destroyed; when the Nonohualca and people of Tollan scattered and dispersed)
- 17C: Chimalpahin, "History or Chronicle with Its Calendar of the Mexica Years"
- A large city; a metropolis.
- 17C: Lope de Vega (Spanish), Bartolomé de Alva (Nahuatl tr.), The Mother of the Best, f. 58r
- çā yè huel Tollan; nechpatzmictia in yxquich tlacatl
- (It's a regular Tula! All the people crush me to death)
- 17C: Lope de Vega (Spanish), Bartolomé de Alva (Nahuatl tr.), The Mother of the Best, f. 58r
Derived terms
References
- Andrews, J. Richard (2003) Introduction to Classical Nahuatl, revised edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, page 496
- Andrews, J. Richard (2003) Workbook for Introduction to Classical Nahuatl, revised edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, page 255
- Chimalpahin Cuauhtlehuanitzin, Domingo Francisco de San Antón Muñón (1997) Arthur J. O. Anderson, Susan Schroeder, transl., Codex Chimalpahin: society and politics in Mexico Tenochtitlan, Tlatelolco, Texcoco, Culhuacan, and other Nahua altepetl in central Mexico: the Nahuatl and Spanish annals and accounts collected and recorded by don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, pages vol. 1, pp. 26–177
- Karttunen, Frances (1983) An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl, Austin: University of Texas Press, page 244
- Lockhart, James (2001) Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts, Stanford: Stanford University Press, page 240
- Sell, Barry D. with Louise M. Burkhart and Elizabeth R. Wright (eds. and trans.) (2008) Nahuatl Theater, Volume 3: Spanish Golden Age Drama in Mexican Translation, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, page 327