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Letter A: Displaying 21 - 40 of 2551

a la Villa.

to La Villa [de Jalostotitlán], at La Villa, in La Villa

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a la.

Orthographic Variants: 
ala

Many loan phrases, which often run together as one word, do not literally intend the preposition (a) or the article (la).

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a Los Lagos.

to [San Juan de] Los Lagos, in [San Juan de] Los Lagos

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a ver.

so, we’ll see

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a-.

Orthographic Variants: 
à-

(a negator)

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a-.

up

Horacio Carochi, S.J., Grammar of the Mexican language with an explanation of its adverbs (1645), translated and edited with commentary by James Lockhart, UCLA Latin American Studies Volume 89 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, UCLA Latin American Center Publications, 2001), 344 n3.

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a-.

negation (see examples below)

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a.

ɑː

to be present
to, at, on
(a loanword from Spanish)
oh, no, huh? (an interjection)

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ā.

a vowel, a letter; the long “a”
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a1.

letter short “a”.
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a2.

verbalizing suffix
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a3.

verbalizing suffix.
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a4.

causative suffix.
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a5.

no.
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aabiontzin.

dragonfly (partially a loanword from Spanish, from avión, airplane)

http://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/nahuat-l/2014-June/005703.html

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āācalaqui.

to step in water and get one’s feet wet after all.
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āācalaquiā1.

to take water inside a building after all.
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āācalaquiā2.

to put an animal or a thing in water and get it wet after all.
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aacaliuhqui.

grooved, furrowed

(central Mexico, sixteenth century)
R. Joe Campbell, Florentine Codex Vocabulary, 1997 .

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aacatl.

reed (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
R. Joe Campbell, Florentine Codex Vocabulary, 1997 .

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