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Xóchitl (Mexican Spanish pronunciation: [ˈʃotʃitɬ]) [1] is the Hispanicized version of "xōchitl", the Nahuatl word for flower (Nahuatl pronunciation: [ˈʃoːtʃitɬ]) is a given name that is somewhat common in Mexico and among Chicanos for girls. [2] [3] The name has been a common Nahuatl name among Nahuas for hundreds of years.
Xochitl (Nahuatl pronunciation: [ˈʃoːtʃitɬ], pronunciation r. 877–916) was a Toltec empress consort and wife of Tecpancaltzin Iztaccaltzin. Her existence beyond legend is questionable, and accounts of her life are mainly based on the writings of indigenous historian Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl .
Many of these are degenerations in the pronunciation of names that originated in other languages. Sometimes a well-known namesake with the same spelling has a markedly different pronunciation. These are known as heterophonic names or heterophones (unlike heterographs, which are written differently but pronounced the same).
Xochitlicue (meaning in Nahuatl 'the one that has her skirt of flowers') is the Aztec goddess of fertility, patroness of life and death, guide of rebirth, younger sister of Coatlicue, Huitzilopochtli's mother according Codex Florentine; and Chimalma, Quetzalcoatl's mother according Codex Chimalpopoca. [1]
Also, if you can't pronounce the Nahuatl sounds (again, this is not an unsurmountable obstacle by any means, with just a little effort), not having IPA won't help you much, unless you're happy with a heavily distorted SHOW-chee-tle or the like.
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The name Xōchiquetzal is a compound of xōchitl (“flower”) and quetzalli (“precious feather; quetzal tail feather”). In Classical Nahuatl morphology, the first element in a compound modifies the second and thus the goddess' name can literally be taken to mean “flower precious feather” or ”flower quetzal feather”.