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Letter C/CH: Displaying 2401 - 2420 of 5795

chilcanauhtli.

Orthographic Variants: 
chilcanautli

Cinnamon Teal, a bird (see Hunn, attestations)

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chīlcaxitl.

rock grinding bowl.
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chilchomolli.

Orthographic Variants: 
chilchomulli

a sauce or stew with chili peppers, or chile verde (see Molina)

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chilchotl.

tʃiːltʃoːtɬ

a long, narrow green chile pepper; and sometimes a reference to a penis
Regarding the sexual connotation for chile, see the story about Tohuenyo in Miguel León-Portilla, Erótica nahuatl (México: El Colegio Nacional y Artes de México y el Mundo, 2018), 10–39, especially p. 38.

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chīlconētl

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chīlcuahuitl.

chile tree.
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Chilcuauhtla.

Orthographic Variants: 
Chilcuautla, Chilquauhtla

a place name for an Indigenous community, located in what is now the state of Hidalgo; it seems to refer to a place with an abundance of chile "trees"

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chilcuema.

tʃiːlkweːmɑ

to plant chile pepper plants

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chilero.

chile seller (a loanword from Spanish, built upon the Nahuatl word for chile, chilli)

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chilhuac.

tʃiːlwɑːk
Orthographic Variants: 
chīlhuāc, chilhuactli, chiluactli

a dried, smoked chili pepper (see Karttunen)

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chilhuacmolli.

Orthographic Variants: 
chiluacmulli, chiluacmolli

a salsa or dish made from dry chile peppers (see Molina)

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Chilhuan.

a personal name (attested as male)

(Tepetlaoztoc, mid-sixteenth century)
Barbara J. Williams and H. R. Harvey, The Códice de Santa María Asunción: Facsimile and Commentary: Households and Lands in Sixteenth-Century Tepetlaoztoc (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1997), 76.

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chīlhuatzāniā.

to grind up chilli peppers on a grinding stone.
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chīlhuatzāniliā.

to grind up chilli peppers on a grinding stone for s.o.
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chīlhuatzantli.

chilli ground on a grinding stone.
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chilhuia.

tʃiːlwiɑː

to throw chile peppers in a stew (see Molina)

1. to add chilli in the preparation of food. 2. to smear s.o., meat or s.t. else with chilli.
A. nic. Una persona le pone chile una cosa. “ Sandra le pone chile la tortilla”. B. Enbararle con chile a algo.
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chīlhuiliā.

add chilli to s.o.’s food.
# una persona le embarra chile encima de otra. “Luisa diario le hace enchiladas su esposo lo que come a medio día”.
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chilia.

tʃiːliɑː
Orthographic Variants: 
chīliā

gives this as the applicative form (see Karttunen)

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chillacuecholli.

tʃiːllɑkweːtʃoːlli
Orthographic Variants: 
chīllacuēchōlli

sauce, paste of ingredients very finely ground together (see Karttunen)

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chillapatli.

tʃiːllɑpɑhtɬi
Orthographic Variants: 
chillapahtli

a shrub with medicinal leaves

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