elchiquihuitl.

Headword:

elchiquihuitl.

Principal English Translation:

the breasts, or the chest (see Molina); bosom (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants:

elchiquiuitl

IPAspelling:

eːltʃikiwitɬ

Alonso de Molina:

elchiquiuitl. los pechos o el pecho. Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 28v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen:

ĒLCHIQUIHU(I)-TL chest, breast, bosom / los pechos o el pecho (M) See ĒL-LI, CHIQUIHU(I)-TL. Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 77.

Attestations from sources in English:

elchiquihuitl (noun) = the breast, the stomach Daniel Garrison Brinton, Ancient Nahuatl Poetry: Containing the Nahuatl Text of XXVII Ancient Mexican Poems (1887), 153.

themes:

Anatomy

Women, Men, Gender

Sexuality, Fertility