nahuatlahtoh

Classical Nahuatl

Alternative forms

Etymology

Preterite agentive of nāhuatlahtoa (“to interpret”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [naːwaˈtɬaʔtoʔ]

Noun

nāhuatlahtoh anim (plural nāhuatlahtohqueh)

An interpreter.
- 1555, Alonso de Molina, Aqui comienca un vocabulario en la lengua castellana y mexicana, f. 150r:
  Ynterprete. nauatlato.
  (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 1555, Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, f. 151v:
  Ladina coſa. nauatlato. tetlatolmatini.
  (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 17C: Chimalpahin, Crónica mexicayotl, f. 60r.
  ce español ytoca Juan grande nahuatlahto audiencia real
  
  (A Spaniard named Juan Grande, an interpreter in the Audiencia Real)

References

Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, Domingo Francisco de San Antón Muñón (1997) Arthur J. O. Anderson, Susan Schroeder, transl., Codex Chimalpahin, Norman and London: University of Oklahoma Press, pages vol. 1, pp. 166–167

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