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Letter A: Displaying 1821 - 1840 of 2551

atanelli.

ɑtɑnelli

a bad or a good outcome (see Molina)

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atapalcatl.

ɑtɑpɑlkɑtɬ

Ruddy Duck, a bird (see Hunn, attestations); a small duck (see Molina)

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ataque.

to be absent (see Molina, who gives this in the first person plural)

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atataca.

ɑːtɑtɑkɑ

to do excavation related to water works
Here in This Year: Seventeenth-Century Nahuatl Annals of the Tlaxcala-Puebla Valley, ed. and transl. Camilla Townsend, with an essay by James Lockhart (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010), 78, note 2.

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atatactli.

ɑːtɑtɑktɬi
Orthographic Variants: 
atactli

cistern (container for storing or holding water or other liquid) or a reservoir

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atatapalcatl.

oysters (see Molina)

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ataúd.

casket, coffin; corn is sometimes added (see attestations)

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ateatlamachtiani.

a person who causes pain or afflicts others (see Molina)

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ateatlamachtiliztli.

affliction, or the act of afflicting (see Molina)

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ātēca.

to pour water someplace or in s.t.
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atecacqui.

ɑhteːkɑkki

one who perturbs and is disobedient (see Molina)

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Atecatl.

the name of a priest (a tlamacazqui) attached to Xelhuan (Quauhtinchan, s. XVI)
Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca, eds. Paul Kirchhoff, Lina Odena Güemes, y Luis Reyes García (México: CISINAH, INAH-SEP, 1976), 135.

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atecauhqui.

ɑhteːkɑːwki

one who is inappropriate and annoying (see Molina)

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atecaxitl.

ɑːtekɑʃitɬ
Orthographic Variants: 
ātecaxitl

a container in which mud is mixed (see Karttunen); also a place name in the state of Veracruz (see attestations)

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atecochatl.

ɑːtekotʃɑːtɬ

water from the cistern, tank, or reservoir (see Molina)

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atecochtli.

cistern, tank, or reservoir (see Molina)

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atecocolli.

ɑːtekokolli
Orthographic Variants: 
atecuculli

a water snail (see Molina)

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atecomatl.

ɑːtekomɑtɬ

a round pumpkin or squash (see Molina)

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ateconi.

ɑːteːkoːni

a siphon or tube for carrying water (see Molina)

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ateconxochitl.

ɑːtekonʃoːtʃitɬ
Orthographic Variants: 
āteconxōchitl

the flower of the guaje vine (Lagenaria siceraria, Lagenaria leucantha), the fruits of which are made into water containers (see Karttunen)

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