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Letter A: Displaying 881 - 900 of 2551
to complete for s.o. a quantity that is lacking or missing.
# una persona le llena algo a alguien. “mi papá le a completa el dinero a mi hermano cuando va a comprar algún lado”.
Orthographic Variants: 
ay

to do (see Carochi)

Orthographic Variants: 
aīc, ayc

never, at no time (see Molina, Carochi, and Olmos)

Orthographic Variants: 
aychquallco

a place name, one of the boundaries of the Nonohualca of Tollan (Tula)
Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca, 4v. Taken from the image of the folio published in Dana Leibsohn, Script and Glyph: Pre-Hispanic History, Colonial Bookmaking, and the Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca (Washington D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks, 2009), 65. Paleography and regularization of this toponym by Stephanie Wood.

Orthographic Variants: 
Aichtempan, Aychtenpan, Aychtempan

a place name; San Juan Aichtenpan was a town in the region of Tlaxcala whose jurisdiction was disputed in the Spanish colonial period, and it therefore became a site of Indigenous rebellion Andrea Martínez Baracs, Un Gobierno de Indios: Tlaxcala, 1519-1750 (2008), 176.

ɑiːkmɑh
Orthographic Variants: 
aīcmah

never (see Karttunen and Molina)

ɑːihiːyoːkɑlɑki
Orthographic Variants: 
āihīyōcalaqui

to sink, to submerge oneself in water (see Karttunen)

ɑːihiːyoːmiki
Orthographic Variants: 
āihīyōmiqui

to drown (see Karttunen)

ɑihwɑtʃmoːlli
Orthographic Variants: 
aihhuachmōlli

a stew prepared with squash seeds, ground corn, chili, and achiote (see Karttunen); note that molli can also refer to a sauce (mole, in contemporary Spanish) (SW)

Orthographic Variants: 
aiuiannemi

disconcerted and agitated

Orthographic Variants: 
aiuiayo

something long, without measure or without end (see Molina)

ɑːihtektɬi

gulf of the sea (see Molina); at sea, in the sea (see attestations)

ɑitwɑllɑpiʃki

a guardian or doorman of a large patio (see Molina)

ɑitwɑlli

a patio of a house (see Molina)

ɑːihtik
Orthographic Variants: 
ayhtic, aytic

a gulf of the sea (see Molina); out in the ocean; in the lake (see attestations)

Orthographic Variants: 
aitzquauhtli

an osprey, a bird (see attestations)

an otter or a nutria
Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter and Alicia Maria Houtrouw, "Book 11: Earthly Things", fol. 69v, Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/11/folio/69v/images/0 Accessed 29 October 2025.

ɑitstetɬ

gizzard (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
ayuh

no so, otherwise, crooked
A. Wimmer. Gran Diccionario Náhuatl, https://gdn.iib.unam.mx/diccionario/aiuh/40387, translated here to English by Stephanie Wood.