Meanings
present singular third person one-rabbits · participle present one-rabbiting · participle past one-rabbited · past one-rabbited · alternative One-Rabbit · alternative one rabbit · alternative One Rabbit
- transitivehistoryTo inflict the 1454 famine on.
only a horrible drought would have entered the lexicon as “One Rabbiting,”
2017, Benjamin D. Johnson, Pueblos Within Pueblos: Tlaxilacalli Communities in Acolhuacan, Mexico, ca. 1272–1692, Boulder: University Press of Colorado, page 732 more examples
The worst year, 1454, was One Rabbit, the year when the people were “one-rabbited”
1989, Louise M. Burkhart, The Slippery Earth: Nahua-Christian Moral Dialogue in Sixteenth-Century Mexico, University of Arizona PressFor four years there was famine. The fourth year was when everyone was “One-Rabbited.”
1997, Arthur J. O. Anderson, Susan Schroeder (eds. and trans.), 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, volume 1, Norman and London: University of Oklahoma Press, page 233
Origin
- Classical Nahuatlcētōchhuia
- Englishone-rabbit
Calque of Classical Nahuatl cētōchhuia, from cē tōchtli (“One Rabbit”, the year 1454 in the Aztec calendar) + -huia
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