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historical dictionaryunam-gdn-ahuacatl
Ahuacatl — Gran Diccionario Náhuatl
- AUTHOR / EDITOR
- Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Editors
- YEAR
- 2012
- PUBLISHER
- Instituto de Investigaciones Bibliográficas · UNAM
- DOI
- Not recorded
- SOURCE TYPE
- historical dictionary
- EXTERNAL RECORD
- OPEN ORIGINAL ↗
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CONTRARIAN TRUTH CLAIMS
RANKED REVEALS THAT CITE THIS SOURCE
RANK 75GRADE Asupports
The anatomical avocado story is both true and overstated.
Nahuatl āhuacatl is historically recorded with fruit and testicle senses. That establishes polysemy—not which sense named the other.
āhuacatl
āhuacatl → aguacate
Historical translations under ahuacatlIndependently documents both senses without semantic direction.
aguacate dossier ↗truth record ↗86UNVEILING
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SCHOLARLY DISAGREEMENT
DISPUTE POSITIONS THAT CITE THIS SOURCE
opencontextboundary
Can aguacate be securely pushed deeper than āhuacatl?
Not from the reviewed sources. The institutional dictionaries reach the Nahuatl word and its historical witnesses but do not establish a deeper lexical ancestor.
Historical ahuacatl record inventoryDocuments the attested word rather than a reconstruction.
resolvedsupportsestablished
Does āhuacatl prove that the fruit was named after a testicle?
No. The historical dictionaries establish that one Nahuatl word had fruit and anatomical senses; they do not establish which sense came first or motivated the other.
Molina, Durán, Clavijero, and Wimmer recordsIndependently preserves fruit and anatomical senses.
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CANONICAL RELATIONSHIP CLAIMS
EDGES THAT CITE THIS SOURCE
EDGE 321supportsestablished
aguacate → āhuacatl
Spanish → Classical Nahuatl · borrowing
- SOUND
- Spanish aguacate adapted Nahuatl āhuacatl to Spanish phonology and spelling.
- MEANING
- The avocado sense was carried into Spanish, while the source word’s testicle sense did not become the ordinary Spanish fruit meaning.
- SCHOLAR / EDITOR
- Merriam-Webster Editors · RAE · ASALE editors
Ahuacatl entries and translations, including Molina 1571Independently documents the historical Nahuatl form and its fruit and anatomical senses.
EDGE 521supportsboundary
āhuacatl → UNKNOWN
Classical Nahuatl → Beyond secure reconstruction · knowledge boundary
- SOUND
- No deeper form or semantic derivation direction is promoted beyond the documented Nahuatl word.
- MEANING
- The graph preserves fruit-and-testicle polysemy without converting it into an unsupported naming event.
- SCHOLAR / EDITOR
- SET-U editorial boundary · RAE · UNAM
Historical entry inventory for ahuacatlDocuments polysemy without deciding which sense generated the other.
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LEXICAL ATTESTATIONS
WITNESSES REPORTED BY THIS SOURCE
aguacateSOURCE-REPORTED
āhuacatl
Molina 1571 Nahuatl dictionary entry
OPEN WITNESS 132 ↗050
COMPARATIVE EVIDENCE
COGNATES, DESCENDANTS, AND RELATIVES
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GEOGRAPHIC AND TEMPORAL CLAIMS
JOURNEY STAGES THAT CITE THIS SOURCE
stage 1supports
Nahuatl-speaking central Mexico
Documents the historical Nahuatl record and senses.
Ahuacatl — Molina 1571 entry · regional070
NON-GENEALOGICAL CONNECTIONS
HISTORICAL CONTEXT, KEPT SEPARATE
No non-genealogical context link currently cites this source.
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WORD-FAMILY REUSE
DOSSIERS THAT DEPEND ON THIS SOURCE
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