[Nahuat-l] Ixnahualtongo y Xocongo

[Michael McCafferty]

Quoting David Wright <dcwright at prodigy.net.mx>:

> Michael, regarding your statement "Also, Ix- is, as you know, a super-common
> prefix in Nahuatl", I have to comment that I don't recall having seen this
> prefix. I've seen the noun i:xtli without its absolutive suffix -tli as the
> first morpheme in a very long list of compound nouns (see Molina), and in
> postpositions (-i:xco, -i:xcua:c, -i:xpampa, -i:xpan, -i:xtlah, and
> -i:xtlan) where it appears in the middle of words, with the meaning "face",
> "eye" or "surface". Could this be what you are thinking of, or is i:x-
> really a prefix?
>
>

David,

I meant to say as Ix- as the first member of a compound, e.g., ixtzohcuil or

ixxayotl.

Sorry.

Michael