A | Nahuatl Dictionary

Letter A: Displaying 121 - 140 of 2551

ac yehuatl?

which of those, or who is that person?

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ac.

ɑːk

Orthographic Variants:

āc

who? which one?

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aca.

ɑkɑh

someone, who, which (see Molina and Karttunen)

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aca.

for s.o. or an animal to be someplace (used only in the negative).

A. está una persona o una animal silvestre. Sólo se utiliza con AX- y otras palabras negativas. ACA no se utiliza con el tiempo presente: vea ACAH, ACAHMEH. “Mi mamá no va a estar mañana porque va a Chicontepec”.

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ācacahuaca.

for s.o.’s skin to blister.

A. se levanta la piel de una persona o se le hace una ampoya donde se quemo con el fuego o agua caliente. la mama de miguel se le ampoyo la mano donde se quemo ayer.

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ācacahuaquetza.

for water or pus to leak from a sore or a blister.

# Una persona se infla un pedazo de su cuero. “Empieza a inflarse ese grano en la espalda de María”.

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acacalotl.

Orthographic Variants:

Acacalotl (capitalized for being a species)

White-faced Ibis (see Hunn in attestations)

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acacampaxoa.

ɑːkɑkɑmpɑʃoɑ

to drink water, bringing it to the mouth many times with the hand (see Molina)

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acachachatl.

ɑːkɑtʃɑtʃɑtɬ

a type of grasshopper, locust

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acachapolin.

the "arrow" grasshopper; these insects are said to fly fast and straight like an arrow (saeta in Spanish); this explains the start of the name (aca-), from acatl (reed), out of which which an arrow shaft was often made
Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter and Alicia Maria Houtrouw, "Book 11: Earthly Things", fol. 102r, Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/11/folio/102r/images/0 Accessed 7 November 2025.

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acachapulin.

Orthographic Variants:

acachapolin

a type of grasshopper, locust (see Molina)

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acachatl.

ɑːkɑtʃɑtɬ

a type of grasshopper, locust

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acachichictli.

ɑːkɑtʃitʃiktɬi

Least Bittern (bird) (see Hunn, in attestations)

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Acachinanco.

a place name; location of a reed hedge
Citing Durán, 1579, in the Gran Diccionario Náhuatl, https://gdn.iib.unam.mx/diccionario/acachinanco/188725

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acachinantli.

a reed hedge; or an enclosure made of reeds
See Yan García's flashcards, where he gives "corral de carrizo.; a reed pen," https://www.brainscape.com/flashcards/other-7421380/packs/12145059

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acachiquihuitl.

ɑːkɑtʃikiwitɬ

Orthographic Variants:

acachiquiuitl

a reed or a cane basket, at least in some places used for tortillas

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Acachollohuatl.

Orthographic Variants:

Acachollohuatzin

son of Tezcatl Popocatzin, who was the son of don Diego de San Francisco Tehuetzquititzin and doña María, daughter of Huehue Mauhcaxochitzin (all according to Chimalpahin); such a genealogy links pre-contact with Spanish colonial times (central Mexico, seventeenth century)
Codex Chimalpahin: Society and Politics in Mexico Tenochtitlan, Tlatelolco, Culhuacan, and Other Nahuatl Altepetl in Central Mexico; The Nahuatl and Spanish Annals and Accounts Collected and Recorded by don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Susan Schroeder (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), vol. 2, 98–99.

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