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Letter A: Displaying 1141 - 1160 of 2551

to remove a seal from a letter or a piece of writing (see Molina)

to seal or put a stamp on a letter, a piece of writing, or a document (see Molina)

one who seals or stamps a letter, a piece of writing, or a document (see Molina)

the sealing or stamping of a letter or a piece of writing (see Molina)

a letter or a piece of writing that has an official seal or stamp (see Molina)

to reply to a letter (see Molina)

the public place were notaries or scribes would write things for others (see Molina)

a pronouncement or a short letter or document (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
amatlacuiloltzacutli

a sealed letter or piece of writing (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
amatlacuiloltzaqua

to close a letter or document (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
amatlacuiloltzaqualiztli

the closure (literally, "lock") for a letter or a piece of writing (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
amatlacuiloltzaquani

he who seals (locks, closes) a letter or a piece of writing (see Molina)

for a hen to cover her little chicks with her wings (see Molina)

ɑhmɑːtɬɑpɑlli

a wing of a bird, or a wing made from paper (see Molina)

ɑhmɑːtɬɑpɑltoːntɬi

a small wing (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
amatlatetectli

paper cuttings, papers that have been cut into designs (see attestations)

ɑːmɑtɬɑtkitɬ

paper garments
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), 45.

Orthographic Variants: 
amatlatzuntli

a packet of paper (see Molina)

the big record book (see attestations); might it have been a bound, i.e. a sewn book, given the component tlatzontli (?)

paper firepot(s); or, in Spanish, the equivalent of luminarios