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''Difrasismo'' is a term derived from 
For example, in Nahuatl the expression or , literally 'the tail, the wing', is used in a metaphoric sense to mean 'the people' or 'the common folk'. The Aztecs' term flower and song'could refer to any artistic endeavor in general and the effect of the divine force . The pair our mother, our father'(which in classical Nahuatl is the only gender-neutral way to refer to a "parent") is often part of an invocation to a high god. The water, burnt-earth'or pairs the elemental opposites of water and fire (each a force for both life and destruction) into a single symbol of war.
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that is used in the study of certain Mesoamerican languages, to describe a particular grammatical construction In linguistics, a grammatical construction is any syntactic string of words ranging from sentences over phrasal structures to certain complex lexemes, such as phrasal verbs.
Grammatical constructions form the primary unit of study in construction ...
in which two separate words are paired together to form a single metaphor
A metaphor is a figure of speech that, for rhetorical effect, directly refers to one thing by mentioning another. It may provide (or obscure) clarity or identify hidden similarities between two different ideas. Metaphors are often compared wi ...
ic unit. This semantic and stylistic device was commonly employed throughout Mesoamerica
Mesoamerica is a historical region and cultural area in southern North America and most of Central America. It extends from approximately central Mexico through Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and northern Costa Rica ...
, and features notably in historical works of Mesoamerican literature
The traditions of indigenous Mesoamerican literature extend back to the oldest-attested forms of early writing in the Mesoamerican region, which date from around the mid-1st millennium BCE. Many of the pre-Columbian cultures of Mesoamerica are ...
, in languages such as Classical Nahuatl and Classic Maya
A classic is an outstanding example of a particular style; something of lasting worth or with a timeless quality; of the first or highest quality, class, or rank – something that exemplifies its class. The word can be an adjective (a ''c ...
.
The term was first introduced by Ángel María Garibay K.
For example, in Nahuatl the expression or , literally 'the tail, the wing', is used in a metaphoric sense to mean 'the people' or 'the common folk'. The Aztecs' term flower and song'could refer to any artistic endeavor in general and the effect of the divine force . The pair our mother, our father'(which in classical Nahuatl is the only gender-neutral way to refer to a "parent") is often part of an invocation to a high god. The water, burnt-earth'or pairs the elemental opposites of water and fire (each a force for both life and destruction) into a single symbol of war.
See also
*Dvandva
A dvandva ('pair' in Sanskrit) is a linguistic compound in which multiple individual nouns are concatenated to form an agglomerated compound word in which the conjunction has been elided to form a new word with a distinct semantic field. For ins ...
*Hendiadys
Hendiadys (; a Latinized form of the Greek phrase (') 'one through two') is a figure of speech used for emphasis—"The substitution of a conjunction for a subordination". The basic idea is to use two words linked by the conjunction "and" inste ...
*Kenning
A kenning ( Icelandic: ) is a figure of speech in the type of circumlocution, a compound that employs figurative language in place of a more concrete single-word noun. Kennings are strongly associated with Old Norse-Icelandic and Old English ...
*Merism
Merism ( la, merismus, grc-gre, μερισμός, merismós) is a rhetorical device (or figure of speech) in which a combination of two ''contrasting parts'' of the whole refer to the whole.
For example, in order to say that someone "searched e ...
* Parallelism (grammar)
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References
* * * * * {{refend Nahuatl Mesoamerican studies Figures of speech