chalchihuitl

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noun

turquoise

OriginClassical Nahuatl chalchihuitl →
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Meanings

nounchalchihuitl (countable and uncountable, plural chalchihuitls)

plural chalchihuitls

  1. Central Americacountableuncountablechemistryturquoise

    But such a determinate value is attached to buckskin, eagle and wild turkey feathers, pelts of the Rocky Mountain lion, chalchihuitl, abalone, olivette shells (unpierced), the perforated sea-shell beads, silver necklaces, and other ornaments[…]

    1974, Theodore R. Frisbie, quoting John G. Bourke, “Hishi as Money in the Puebloan Southwest”, in The Snake-dance of the Moquis of Arizona, 1884, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, page 254, in reference to the Hopi, quoted in Collected Papers in Honor of Florence Hawley Ellis, Norman: Hooper Publishing Company, published 1975, page 125

Origin

  1. Classical Nahuatlchalchihuitl
  2. Classical Nahuatlchalchihuitl
  3. Englishchalchihuitl

Borrowed from Classical Nahuatl chalchihuitl.

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Chicago

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