[Aztlan] Tepache

[John F. Schwaller]

What I failed to mention is that Molina and others do have words with the
morpheme "tepach" in them, showing that it existed, in all likelihood, in
Nahuatl before being borrowed into Spanish.



> "There is no clear way that "tepiatl" could end up
> "tepache" under the rules of Nahuatl phonology," John F. Schwaller
>
> Right, I agree.  But if the loanword to Spanish is based on
> tepiatzin, not tepiatl, there are parallel loan words that end up
> having "che" in place of "tzin."  So it's not a question of Nahuatl
> phonology, but the assimilation of Nahuatl words to Spanish.
>
> Nick Hopkins
>
>


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