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Letter A: Displaying 2321 - 2340 of 2551

ay.

to make something exterior

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aya.

ɑyɑ

not yet, no longer (see Karttunen)

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ayac ixco tlachia.

a shameless or presumptuous person

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ayac.

ɑjɑ:k

Orthographic Variants:

aiaac

no one; nobody; or, for someone to be absent (see Lockhart)

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ayacachcuahuitl.

ɑːyɑkɑtʃkwɑwitɬ

Orthographic Variants:

āyacachcuahuitl

the mahogany tree (see Karttunen)

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ayacachetl.

ɑːyɑkɑtʃetɬ

Orthographic Variants:

āyacachetl

a type of bean (see Karttunen); probably one that could rattle when dried (SW)

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ayacachoa.

ɑːyɑkɑtʃoɑː

to play or ring dangling pieces of metal (see Molina); to play the rattle (see Karttunen)

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ayacachquetza.

ɑːjɑkɑtʃketsɑ

to play or ring some kind of chimes (see Molina)

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ayacachtli.

ɑːyɑkɑtʃtɬi

Orthographic Variants:

āyacachtli

a rattle (see Lockhart, Karttunen), a gourd rattle (Sahagún)
James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 211.

a type of gourd rattle.

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