Hay en esta tierra unos grandísimos lagartos que ellos llaman acuetzpalin. Los españoles llaman caimanes. Son largos y gruesos. Tienen pies y manos y colas largas, y dividida la punta en tres o cuatro. Tiene la boca muy ancha, y muy ancho tragadero. Los grandes dellos tráganse un hombre entero. Tienen el pellejo negro. Tienen conchas en el lomo, muy duras. Sale dellos mal hedor. Atraen con el anhélito lo que quieren comer. Éstos no andan en la mar, sino en las orillas de los ríos grandes.
\n","citation_key":"citation_lopez_spanish_transcription","citation":{"en":["Spanish by López Austin & García Quintana 2000"],"es":["Español por López Austin & García Quintana 2000"]}},{"id":"dad55ce4-c774-4457-8c73-c6854e272547","choice":{"en":["Spanish-to-English by García Garagarza 2023"],"es":["Español-al-inglés por García Garagarza 2023"]},"type":"translation","type_label":{"en":["spanish translation"],"es":["traducción al español"]},"column":"spanish","language":{"en":["English"],"es":["Inglés"]},"language_code":"eng","subtitle":"(García Garagarza 2023)","markdown":"#### Fourth chapter: On other water animals that are not edible\n\n##### First paragraph: On the alligators and other similar animals\n\nIn this land, there are some extremely large lizards that they call _acuetzpalin_. The Spaniards call them “alligators.”[^39] They are long and stocky. They have feet, hands, and long tails, the tip of which is divided into three or four [parts]. It has a very wide mouth and a very wide gullet. The largest of them are able to swallow a whole man. Their skin is black. They have shells[^40] on their backs, very hard ones. A bad stench comes out of them. They attract whatever they want to eat with their breath. These [animals] live not in the sea but on the banks of large rivers. \n\n\n[^39]: “Alligators”: _caimanes_; sing. _caimán_. According to _DLE_ (s.v. _caimán_), the Spanish word _caimán_ is of Taino origin. Joan Corominas (_Breve diccionario_, 117) states that it probably comes from the Carib word _acayuman_.\n\n[^40]: “Shells”: _conchas_; that is, scutes.","html":"In this land, there are some extremely large lizards that they call acuetzpalin. The Spaniards call them “alligators.”1 They are long and stocky. They have feet, hands, and long tails, the tip of which is divided into three or four [parts]. It has a very wide mouth and a very wide gullet. The largest of them are able to swallow a whole man. Their skin is black. They have shells2 on their backs, very hard ones. A bad stench comes out of them. They attract whatever they want to eat with their breath. These [animals] live not in the sea but on the banks of large rivers.
\nvei, tomaoac, vecapan, viac, viacapol, cujtlatomacpol, mâmae ihicxe, cujtlapile, cujtlapilxexeltic: vel iuhqujn cuetzpali in jtlac, in jtzontecon: ieh vel camacoiaoac, camaxacaltic, tlapetztoloanj, tepetztoloanj, teihiioananj: tliltic, catzaoac, tapalcaio. In jtapalcaio in jxincaio iuhqujn tetl; chicaoac, tlaquaoac, tepitztic, oltic: chicaoac, tlapaltic, tlalichtic: in jnacaio cocôiac, toquaiac, tlaihiioana, teihiioana, tlapetztoloa, tlacēcalaquja. Amo onaci in vei atl yitic: çã amapan in nemj.
\n","citation_key":"citation_anderson_nahuatl_transcription","citation":{"en":["Nahuatl by Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"],"es":["Náhuatl por Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"]}},{"id":"a7186e54-5b9b-4432-aa48-20a8c29681ea","choice":{"en":["Nahuatl-to-English by Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"],"es":["Náhuatl-al-inglés por Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"]},"type":"translation","type_label":{"en":["nahuatl translation"],"es":["traducción al náhuatl"]},"column":"nahuatl","language":{"en":["English"],"es":["Inglés"]},"language_code":"eng","subtitle":"(Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982)","markdown":"#### Fourth Chapter, which telleth of still other animals which live in the water, which are inedible.\n\n\n##### First paragraph, which telleth of inedible water-living animals.\n\n##### Crocodile[^1]\n\nIt is large, thick, high, long, very long, fat-backed. It has arms, legs, tail, a divided tail. Just like a lizard’s are its body, its head. It is really big-mouthed, open-mouthed. It is a swallower of things, of people whole, one which attracts people with its breath. It is black, dirty-colored, with a shell. Its shell, its scales are like stones—strong, solid, hard, rubbery, strong, firm, tough. Its flesh is bad, stinking. It attracts things, it attracts people with its breath; it swallows things whole; it puts them in all in one piece. It has not arrived in the sea; it lives only in the rivers.\n\n\n\n\n[^1]: *Acuetzpali: Crocodylus acutus, C. moreletti* in Martín del Campo (“Ensayo,” *Anales del Instituto de Biología*, IX, 3–4), p. 391.","html":"It is large, thick, high, long, very long, fat-backed. It has arms, legs, tail, a divided tail. Just like a lizard’s are its body, its head. It is really big-mouthed, open-mouthed. It is a swallower of things, of people whole, one which attracts people with its breath. It is black, dirty-colored, with a shell. Its shell, its scales are like stones—strong, solid, hard, rubbery, strong, firm, tough. Its flesh is bad, stinking. It attracts things, it attracts people with its breath; it swallows things whole; it puts them in all in one piece. It has not arrived in the sea; it lives only in the rivers.
\nAcuetzpali: Crocodylus acutus, C. moreletti in Martín del Campo (“Ensayo,” Anales del Instituto de Biología, IX, 3–4), p. 391.↩