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one-rabbit en · VERB

Etymology

Calque of Classical Nahuatl cētōchhuia, from cē tōchtli (“One Rabbit”, the year 1454 in the Aztec calendar) + -huia

Meanings

1. (transitive) To inflict the 1454 famine on.
   • The worst year, 1454, was One Rabbit, the year when the people were “one-rabbited” 1989, Louise M. Burkhart, The Slippery Earth: Nahua-Christian Moral Dialogue in Sixteenth-Century Mexico, University of Arizona Press:
   • For four years there was famine. The fourth year was when everyone was “One-Rabbited.” 1997, Arthur J. O. Anderson, Susan Schroeder (eds. and trans.), Codex Chimalpahin: Society and Politics in Mexico Tenochtitlan, Tlatelolco, Texcoco, Culhuacan, and Other Nahua Altepetl in Central Mexico: The Nahuatl and Spanish annals and accounts collected and recorded by don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, volume 1, Norman and London: University of Oklahoma Press, page 233:
   • only a horrible drought would have entered the lexicon as “One Rabbiting,” 2017, Benjamin D. Johnson, Pueblos Within Pueblos: Tlaxilacalli Communities in Acolhuacan, Mexico, ca. 1272–1692, Boulder: University Press of Colorado, page 73:

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