Tollan

See also: tollan and tollán

Classical Nahuatl

Alternative forms

• Tullam

Etymology

tōlin (“rushes”) +‎ -lān (“place”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /toːllaːn/

Proper noun

Tōllān

1. Tollan/Tula.
   • 17C: Chimalpahin, "History or Chronicle with Its Calendar of the Mexica Years"

     ye yuh nepa matlactlōmahio xihuitl, opoliuh yn altepetl Tullam, ynic cenmanque momoyahuaque nonohualca Tullam tlaca

     (it was fourteen years after the altepetl of Tollan had been destroyed; when the Nonohualca and people of Tollan scattered and dispersed)

2. A large city; a metropolis.
   • 17C: Lope de Vega (Spanish), Bartolomé de Alva (Nahuatl tr.), The Mother of the Best, f. 58r

     çā yè huel Tollan; nechpatzmictia in yxquich tlacatl

     (It's a regular Tula! All the people crush me to death)

Derived terms

• Tollantzinco
• toltecatl

References

• Andrews, J. Richard (2003) Introduction to Classical Nahuatl, revised edition edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, page 496
• Andrews, J. Richard (2003) Workbook for Introduction to Classical Nahuatl, revised edition edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, page 255
• Chimalpahin Cuauhtlehuanitzin, Domingo Francisco de San Antón Muñón (1997) Arthur J. O. Anderson, Susan Schroeder, transl., 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, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, pages vol. 1, pp. 26–177
• Karttunen, Frances (1983) An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl, Austin: University of Texas Press, page 244
• Lockhart, James (2001) Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts, Stanford: Stanford University Press, page 240
• Sell, Barry D. with Louise M. Burkhart and Elizabeth R. Wright (eds. and trans.) (2008) Nahuatl Theater, Volume 3: Spanish Golden Age Drama in Mexican Translation, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, page 327