B | Nahuatl Dictionary

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batan.

Orthographic Variants:

patan

a fulling mill, a fuller

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.

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beatificación.

beatification
(a loanword from Spanish)

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Beatriz.

Orthographic Variants:

Peadriz, Biatriz

a woman's name, attested in Mexico City in 1551; interesting for the orthographic changes as the name was written in Nahuatl

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becerro. / becerra.

calf
(a loanword from Spanish)

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Belén.

Orthographic Variants:

bethlen, bethlem, bethleem

Bethlehem, the place name
(a loanword from Spanish)

(central Mexico, late sixteenth century; originally from Sahagún in 1574, a document that Chimalpahin copied)
Codex Chimalpahin: Society and Politics in Mexico Tenochtitlan, Tlatelolco, Culhuacan, and Other Nahuatl Altepetl in Central Mexico; The Nahuatl and Spanish Annals and Accounts Collected and Recorded by don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Susan Schroeder (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), vol. 2, 136–137.

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bergantín.

Orthographic Variants:

vergantin

brigantine, a ship or boat built for use in war (see attestations)

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Bernabé.

a first name for a boy or man
(a loanword from Spanish)

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binacordia.

a stringed musical instrument (see attestations)

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blanquillo.

Orthographic Variants:

blaquilio

a type of wheat
(a loanword from Spanish)

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bocol.

1. corn cake make with beans. 2. corn cake made with chile, salt and lard.

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bofotōntic.

a knotty stick.

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bohbofotōntic.

a very knotty or rough stick, firewood or vine.

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bohbotōntic.

a knotty stick.

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bolahchīhua1.

to form s.t. into balls.

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bolahchīhua2.

to form s.t. into balls.

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bonete.

Orthographic Variants:

bunete

a bonnet, a biretta, a hat; worn by members of the clergy
(a loanword from Spanish)

(early seventeenth century, central New Spain)
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), 204–205.

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