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tʃiːtʃiːloɑː

to make something red (see Molina and Karttunen)

a son of Huehue Tezozomoctli and Tzihuacxochitzin (of Malinalco), he ruled in Aculman (Acolman)

(central Mexico, seventeenth century)
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, 110–111.

tʃiːtʃiːlokwilin

a red worm used for fishing; or, a worm found in humans' stomachs

to be flushed, to turn red, to make something red

a large red parrot (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
chichiltic tepuz oztotl.

a miner who extracts copper (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
chichiltic tepuzquixtiloyan

copper miner

"red earth," a medicine for relieving sore throat

Martín de la Cruz, Libellus de medicinalibus indorum herbis; manuscrito azteca de 1552; segun traducción latina de Juan Badiano; versión española con estudios comentarios por diversos autores (Mexico: Fondo de Cultural Económica; Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, 1991), 31 [19r.].

tʃiːtʃiːltik

something red, crimson (see Lockhart and Karttunen); chili-red (see Sahagún)

the color red.
tʃiːtʃiːltiksiwɑːpɑhtɬi
Orthographic Variants: 
chīchīlticcihuāpahtli

a medicinal plant (see Karttunen)

tʃiːtʃiːltikkwɑwitɬ
Orthographic Variants: 
chīchīlticcuahuitl

candlewood, a spiny red-flowering bush (Fouquieria splendens, Fouquieria formosa) (see Karttunen)

tʃiːtʃiːltsɑpotɬ
Orthographic Variants: 
chīchīltzapotl

mamey (a type of ) fruit) (see Karttunen)

the Chichimecs, a non-sedentary people of the North; sometimes also called Teochichimeca; referenced as the ancestors of the Mexica (central Mexico, seventeenth century)
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, 106–109.

tʃiːtʃiːmeːkɑpɑhtɬi
Orthographic Variants: 
chīchīmēcapahtli, chichimecapatli

a potent medicinal plant (see Karttunen)

land of the Chichimecs, Chichimec country (see attestations)

a title, "Lord of the Chichimecs," held by many men; for a visual example, see: https://aztecglyphs.wired-humanities.org/content/chichimeca-tecuhtli-mh690v

tʃiːtʃiːmeːkɑtɬ

a Chichimeca, an indigenous inhabitant of the North of Mexico; an ancestor of the Mexica; or, someone considered a barbarian
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), 214.

the land of the Chichimeca (a.k.a., the Chichimecs, or los chichimecas); this region is located north of central Mexico (see attestations)

the land of the Chichimecs, the non- or semi-sedentary people of the North