[Nahuat-l] Princess name

[Michael McCafferty]

Quoting Irene Padilla <Irene.Padilla at fmc-na.com>:

> Good Morning Listeros...Ive been reading the post.
> Can you give me the correct pronunciation of Tecuichpochtzin
> May you all have a blessed day!
> Thanks!
> ~Irene

Irene ihuan mochintin:

Phonemically, "underlyingly so to speak," Tecuichpochtzin is

/te-kwic-poc-tsin/

with the stress falling on the first and third syllables.

(Here [c] = Spanish "ch".)

However, at the *phonetic* level, i.e., in actual parlance,

the /c-ts/ -> [tsts].

Moreover, /c-p/ -> [pp] is possible.

So, the surface pronunciation can be either

[te-kwic-pots-tsin] or [te-kwip-pots-tsin].

Michael