⚠ Site currently under repair ⚠

Search Issues: Update 2026-08-06

Some of our more complex, multi-field searches (such as the search field on our homepage and Search All Fields) are currently under repair and may not work as expected.

Thank you to all our users who emailed to alert us to the problem! We hope to have it repaired soon.

Meanwhile, elements of the Advanced Search are working and the Alphabetical Listings are working, too.

A

Letter A: Displaying 2021 - 2040 of 2551

tempest or storm (see Molina)

ɑːtɬɑtɬɑːkɑtsiːkɑtɬ
Orthographic Variants: 
ātlatlācatzīcatl

a type of ant (see Karttunen)

a person who is in charge of carrying water (see Molina)

ɑːtɬɑtɬɑːlɑkɑtɬ
Orthographic Variants: 
tlalalacatl

Black-bellied Whistling Duck, a bird (see Hunn, attestations); goose (see Molina)

an outlaw; one who breaks rules, ordinances, laws (see Molina)

a lawbreaker or a rule breaker (see Molina)

to be left empty (see Molina)

a talker, someone who talks a lot (see Molina)

the name of one of four women prepared for a year to marry and lie with the ritual representative of the deity Tezcatlipoca (or Titlacauan, or Titlacahuan) in the month of Toxcatl
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 2 -- The Ceremonies, No. 14, Part III, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1951), 67.

ɑːtɬɑtskwepoːniɑː
Orthographic Variants: 
ātlatzcuepōniā

to beat water with one's hand (see Karttunen) for the sound it makes

ɑːtɬɑtsik
Orthographic Variants: 
ātlatzic

something watered, watery (see Karttunen)

ɑːtɬɑtsikwiːniɑ

to spray someone with water (see Molina)

splash someone with water

a person who transports water.

a personal name; and seen attested as the name or title of a high judge (see Sahagún)

in the ravine, in ravines (see attestations), and the ravine probably has water at the bottom, so the contemporary Eastern Huastecan meaning, "at the river," suggests a similar sense

at the river.
deep part of a river.
Orthographic Variants: 
Atlapulco

a placename; an indigenous community to the west of the Basin of Mexico, in what is now the state of Mexico

1. at, on, to the river bank. 2. above the river bank.