C / CH

Letter C/CH: Displaying 2241 - 2260 of 5790

a place name; a legendary place in the migration from Aztlan; translates as the Place of Seven Caves

Orthographic Variants: 
chicumpantli

seven rows of something (see Molina); can refer to agricultural furrows

Orthographic Variants: 
chicumpoalli, chicompoalli

seven times twenty (140)

Orthographic Variants: 
chicome pohualli

7 x 20 = 140

Orthographic Variants: 
Chiucnahui Itzcuintli

a deity's name ("Nine Dog") with a calendrical significance, part of the Xiuhtecuhtli Complex of deities, associated with hearth/fire and paternalism
"Table 3. Major Deities of the Late Pre-Hispanic Central Mexican Nahua-Speaking Communities." Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volume 6: Social Anthropology, ed Manning Nash (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1967).

Orthographic Variants: 
chiconaui, chiucnahui, chicunahui, chicunaui, chiuhnatzin

nine (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
chicunappa chicunaui, chiucnappa chiucnahui, chicunappa chicunahui

nine times nine (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
chiucnappa ixquich, chicunappa ixquich

nine times as much (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
chiucnappa; chicuhnauapan, chicunappa

nine times (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
chiucnauh mictlan, chicunauh mictlan

the ninth and deepest level of the underworld (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
chicunauh tianquiztli, chiucnauhtianquiztli, chicunauhtianquiztli, chiucnahu tianquiztli

a festival or market that takes place every nine days (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
chiucnauhcan, chicunauhcan

in nine parts, or nine rations (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
chicunahuipilli, chicunauipilli, chiucnauipilli, chiucnahuipilli, chicunauhhuipilli, chiconauhhuipilli

180 bolts of cloth, tortillas, mats, etc. (thin and flat things)

Orthographic Variants: 
Chicunauhnepaniuhcan, chicunauhnepanjuhcan, chiucnauhnepaniuhcan

the place [above] the nine heavens, the nine heavens in tiers, layers

(central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 6 -- Rhetoric and Moral Philosophy, No. 14, Part 7, 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, 1961), 176.

nine ears of maize (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
chiucnauhpantli, chicunauhpantli

nine rows (see Molina); can refer to agricultural furrows

Orthographic Variants: 
chicunapohualli, chicunappoalli, chicunappohualli, chiucnapohualli, chiucnappoalli, chiconauhpoalli

180, or nine twenties (see Siméon)

nine (see Molina)

nine things, portions, or nine pairs (see Molina)