itztli

Noun

 * 1) obsidian.

Alternative forms

 * (obsolete)

Pronunciation
Karttunen (1983), Lockhart (2001) and Andrews (2003) all write ītztli, but Lockhart says "It is not entirely certain that the i of the root is long."

Noun

 * 1) obsidian
 * 2) an obsidian knife
 * 3) * 1547, Andrés de Olmos, Arte para aprender la lengua mexicana, ed. by Rémi Siméon (1875)
 * "nci"

- Ytztli, navaja de piedra, nitz, vel nitzhui


 * 1) * 1912, Isabel Castañeda Ramirez, Tèhuehuentzin ihuan tochtli, ed. and tr. by Franz Boas and Herman K. Haeberlin; in "Ten Folktales in Modern Nahuatl", The Journal of American Folklore, vol. 37 (1924), p. 346
 * "nci"

- ximanilli in aitztli [sic; error for itztli?] nian huetztoc, ica xinechmitzminilli, ihuan xinechmoyezatliti. Take this obsidian knife and wound me with it and drink my blood.