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Letter A: Displaying 1801 - 1820 of 2543

artículo.

article of faith

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arzobispado.

Orthographic Variants: 
arҫobispado

archbishopric, the region overseen by the archbishop (central Mexico, 1613)
see: Annals of His Time: Don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, James Lockhart, Susan Schroeder, and Doris Namala, eds. and transl. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006), 264–265.

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arzobispo.

Orthographic Variants: 
arsoobispo, alsobisbon, arçobispoyotl, Arçobispos, arҫobisposme

archbishop (see attestations)

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Ascensión.

the feast day of Ascension

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asnaconetl.

donkey foal (lit. offspring of a female donkey)

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asno.

Orthographic Variants: 
axno, Asnoti, axnotzitzin

a donkey (see attestations)

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asnoconetl.

donkey foal (lit. offspring of a donkey)

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asperges.

a chant the priest says when blessing the altar and congregation with holy water (originally from Latin) (see attestations)

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astrólogo.

astrologer (see attestations)

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Asunción.

Orthographic Variants: 
Azsopcio, Assupcion, Aspsio, asupcion

the Assumption of the Virgin Mary; also, a woman's name and part of a place name, in some cases (see attestations)

the feast day of the Assumption

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at.

ɑt

perhaps, maybe, by chance, whether (see Molina and Lockhart)

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atac.

to be absent (see Molina, who uses the second person singular)

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Atamalcualiztli.

Orthographic Variants: 
Atamalqualiztli

the Eating of the Water Tamales, an autonomous-era festival that was celebrated every eight years
Thelma D. Sullivan, "Tlatoani and Tlatocayotl in the Sahagún Manuscripts," Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl 14 (1980), 235.

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atamalli.

a water-based tamale, without salt or chile, meat or fruit
Gran Diccionario Náhuatl, citing Wimmer 2004, which draws from Sahagún. "Tamales à l'eau, c'est à dire sans condiment, sans sel ni chile, sans viande ni fruit," https://gdn.iib.unam.mx/diccionario/atamalli/40947. Translation to English by Stephanie Wood.

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atambor.

kettle drum

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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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