[Nahuat-l] ixnahualtongo - xocongo

[Michael McCafferty]

Quoting Michael McCafferty <mmccaffe at indiana.edu>:

> Quoting Magnus Pharao Hansen <magnuspharao at gmail.com>:
>
>> A couple of Small comments to the placenames ixnahualtongo and xoconco
>> The locative of xoco-tl would be xoco-c not xococo since the root ends in a
>> vowel not a consonant.
>
> Correct.
>

I've been trying to figure out why i'd say *xococo....

maybe it's because of xocotla.

xoco..tla..

xoco..co...

That must be it. :-)

Michael