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Neither Moctezuma nor Cuitláhuac were his sons, that would make them brothers to Cuauhtémoc. Axacáyatl appears in some of the hyperlinked pages as a separate ruler, preceding Tízoc. So where does the confusion arise?
I'm taking that reference out for now.
Piotr
Auítzotl → Ahuitzotl — Much more usual name. Ptcamn 22:56, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
The Spanish source glosses the name as "el espinoso del agua" which is not "Thorny Water" but "the thorny one of the water". Nahuatl compounds, like English compounds, are usually head-final and huitzotl "thorny one, porcupine" (< huitztli "thorn") is the second element of Ahuitzotl, not ātl "water". Āhuitzotl was also the Classical Nahuatl word for "otter". Linguoboy ( talk) 15:38, 21 June 2019 (UTC)
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Neither Moctezuma nor Cuitláhuac were his sons, that would make them brothers to Cuauhtémoc. Axacáyatl appears in some of the hyperlinked pages as a separate ruler, preceding Tízoc. So where does the confusion arise?
I'm taking that reference out for now.
Piotr
Auítzotl → Ahuitzotl — Much more usual name. Ptcamn 22:56, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
The Spanish source glosses the name as "el espinoso del agua" which is not "Thorny Water" but "the thorny one of the water". Nahuatl compounds, like English compounds, are usually head-final and huitzotl "thorny one, porcupine" (< huitztli "thorn") is the second element of Ahuitzotl, not ātl "water". Āhuitzotl was also the Classical Nahuatl word for "otter". Linguoboy ( talk) 15:38, 21 June 2019 (UTC)