C / CH

Letter C/CH: Displaying 201 - 220 of 5700
kɑkɑjɑktik

something thin, such as a cloak or a group of trees

kɑkɑjɑktɬi

something sparse or thin, such as a cloth or a grove of trees

kɑhkɑyɑːwɑ
Orthographic Variants: 
cacayaua

to cheat, deceive, jeer at, ridicule, laugh at

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), 212.

kɑkɑjɑkiliɑ

for someone to make crumble something that belongs to someone else (see Molina)

something covered with grass, grown over

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), 212.

calluses on the hands or feet (see Molina)

kɑkɑsoːtik
Orthographic Variants: 
cacazōtic

something porous(see Karttunen)

to pretend not to hear or understand (see Molina)

especially, or principally (see Molina)

kɑktʃiːwɑ
Orthographic Variants: 
cacchīhua

to make shoes (see Karttunen)

kɑktʃiːwkɑːn
Orthographic Variants: 
cacchīuhcān

place where shoes are made (see Karttunen)

kɑktʃiːwki

shoemaker (see Molina)

barefooted (see Molina)

kɑkkopinɑ

to take off shoes

kɑkkopinɑloni

a shoemaker's last or form (see Molina)

something full of calluses (see Molina)

the indigenous ruler of the Toluca (Tolocan, Tollocan) region in the time of Axayacatl and the Triple Alliance that was centered in Tenochtitlan; Cachimaltzin was not happy that the central Mexicans were taking Tolucan territory and distributing it among settlers from Tlatelolco, Azcapotzalco, Tetzcoco, and Tlacopan (Tacuba); Cachimaltzin's successor was Mazacoyotzin (see attestations)
Pedro Carrasco, The Tenochca Empire of Ancient Mexico (2012), 258; and Pedro Carrasco, Estructura político-territorial del imperio tenochca (2016).

kɑtʃopiːn
Orthographic Variants: 
cachopīn, cachupin, cachopopin, gachupin

pejorative term for Spaniard, European (see Karttunen)

a female cacique, or indigenous elite
(a loanword from Spanish that came originally from the Caribbean, from Taíno)

a cacique's entailed estate
(a loanword from Spanish; but the term cacique originally came from Taíno in the Caribbean)