[Aztlan] Uitzquauitl

[Nick Hopkins]

Santamaria's Diccionario de mejicanismos (one of the best sources for  
Nahuatl borrowings, especially plant names) has:

tesguate.  Del azt. tetl, piedra, y huatli, bledos.  Nombre vulgar de  
varias plantas melastomáceas, como el capulincillo o nihua  
(Canostegia xalapensis), el totopozole (Miconia laevigata), y otras.


On Nov 26, 2007, at 1:20 PM, Holly Parker wrote:

> I am still at a loss as to what tezuatl is, as far as the Latin  
> name goes. It is also a plant, likely a tree. This one has proven  
> to be a great mystery, as I have never found a word even remotely  
> similar to it referring to plants in the dictionaries I have searched.