podrían huir, y que caerían en manos de sus enemigos. Y por eso los padres y madres prohibían a sus hijos que no pusiesen los pies sobre el tenamaztli o trébedes.
\nTenían otra abusión: decían que cuando se doblaba la tortilla, echándola en el comal para cocerse, era señal que alguno venía a aquella casa, o que el marido de aquella mujer que cocía el pan, si era ido fuera venía ya, y había coceado la tortilla, porque se dobló.
\nOtra abusión tenían: decían que el que lamiese la piedra en que muelen, que se llama métlatl, se le caerían presto los dientes y muelas. Y por esto los padres y madres prohibían a sus hijos que no lamiesen los metates.
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\nThey had another superstition: they said that when a tortilla would fold over when it was being put on the comal to be cooked, it was a sign that someone was coming to that house; or else that the husband of the woman who was cooking the bread, if he was away, was already on his way back home and had kicked over the tortilla, because it had folded over.
\nThey had another superstition: they said that the teeth and molars of anyone who would lick the stone that they use for grinding, which is called metlatl, would soon fall out. And this is why fathers and mothers would forbid their children to lick the metates.3
\ncomal: the griddle used to warm up tortillas, usually made of clay; Hispanicized form of the Nahuatl word comalli.↩
metlatl: Indigenous mortar, usually made of basalt stone. The word has been incorporated into Mexican Spanish as metate.↩
“Metates”: plural Hispanicized form of metlatl and adopted into English. See Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, 11th ed. (2014), s.v. “metate.”↩
[tena]maztli mitzjcximjmjctiz in jquac intla tiaz iavc, qujlhuja: aiocmo vel nenemjz, aiocmo vel motlaloz in iaupan: ça ycximjmjqujz, yciuhca ynmac vetziz in jniaovan: ynjc qujntlacaoaltiaia in jntelpuchoan, in njcan tlaca, injc amo yuh inpan muchioaz.
\nIn jquac tlaxcaloa in cioa, intla ocuelpachiuh itlaxcal: no vncatca innetlapololtiliz, qujtoa: aqujn ie vitz oqujoaltilicçac: auh in anoce yoqujchvi, in canapa veca oya, qujtoaia: ca ye hujtz, ca qujoaltilicçac yn notlaxcal.
\nIn jquac pipiltotonti qujxpapaloa metlatl: yc teaoaia, yc qujmaoaia, yc qujntlacaoaltiaia in tenanoan yn jnpilhoan, qujmjlhujaia: macamo xicpapalocan in metlatl, yc iciuhca cocotoniz, yciuhca vevetziz in amotlan. Ipampa yn, cenca qujmjmacaxiltiaia in pipiltotonti: injc amo iuh ynpan muchioaz.
\n","citation_key":"citation_anderson_nahuatl_transcription","citation":{"en":["Nahuatl by Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"],"es":["Náhuatl por Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"]}},{"id":"23f10f76-2b56-46cb-86d5-606019ccacc7","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":"hearth stones. It will deaden thy feet when, perchance, thou goest to war.” They said to him that now he would not be able to walk or run in time of battle. His feet would be numbed; quickly he would fall into the hands of their foes. Hence the natives restrained their youths, that this might not befall them.\n\n#### Fourteenth Chapter, which telleth of the tortilla doubled over on the griddle.\n\nWhen a woman made tortillas, if her tortilla doubled over, there was also a delusion of theirs. She said: “Someone who now cometh hath kicked it over.” Or if, perchance, her husband had gone somewhere distant, she said: “Now he cometh, for he hath kicked over my tortilla.”\n\n#### Fifteenth Chapter, which telleth of small children who licked the surface of the grinding stone.\n\nWhen small children licked the surface of the grinding stone, the mothers chid and scolded their young ones for it, and restrained them from it, saying to them: “Do not lick the grinding stone; your teeth will thus quickly break and fall out.” Because of this, they filled their small children with great fear, so that this would not befall them.","html":"hearth stones. It will deaden thy feet when, perchance, thou goest to war.” They said to him that now he would not be able to walk or run in time of battle. His feet would be numbed; quickly he would fall into the hands of their foes. Hence the natives restrained their youths, that this might not befall them.
\nWhen a woman made tortillas, if her tortilla doubled over, there was also a delusion of theirs. She said: “Someone who now cometh hath kicked it over.” Or if, perchance, her husband had gone somewhere distant, she said: “Now he cometh, for he hath kicked over my tortilla.”
\nWhen small children licked the surface of the grinding stone, the mothers chid and scolded their young ones for it, and restrained them from it, saying to them: “Do not lick the grinding stone; your teeth will thus quickly break and fall out.” Because of this, they filled their small children with great fear, so that this would not befall them.
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