C / CH

Letter C/CH: Displaying 2481 - 2500 of 5780
Orthographic Variants: 
a la China, alachina

China, or Asia more generally, including the Philippines
(a loanword from Spanish)

tʃinɑlwiɑ

to burn fields or someone's crops

tʃinɑːmitɬ
Orthographic Variants: 
chinampa, chinamit, and see the loanword(?) tinamit in K'iché texts

a reed or cane fence or enclosure; a wall; a subunit of an altepetl; a chinampa (raised lakebed garden) or agricultural strip
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.

Orthographic Variants: 
chinampa

a long narrow extension of farm land built by human hands and stretching into the freshwater lakes around Mexico City (see also chinamitl); entered Spanish as chinampa
S. L. Cline, Colonial Culhuacan, 1580-1600: A Social History of an Aztec Town (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1986), 235.

a person of the region where chinampa agriculture is practiced; a person from the communities of Xochimilco, Cuitlahuac, and Itztapalapan, etc. (plural: chinampaneca) (see the Florentine Codex Book 12, Chapter 33, and attestations)

tʃinɑːmpehpenɑ
Orthographic Variants: 
chināmpehpena

to gather cane or cornstalks (see Karttunen)

tʃinɑːnkɑlli
Orthographic Variants: 
chinancali

a house or enclosure built of cane or cornstalks (see Karttunen); or, encircled with a fence (see Molina); or, house lots (see attestations)

tʃinɑːnkɑltiɑ

to make a fence for someone (see Molina); or, to build an enclosure or house of sticks or stalks for someone

a type of agricultural field--wavy? with ridges and furrows?; the term appears to combine chinamitl (agricultural strip or chinampa) with a reduplication of colli (something bent or twisted) or just cocol (entrusted to someone)

tʃinɑːnteki
Orthographic Variants: 
chināntequi

to cut cane or cornstalks (see Karttunen)

tʃinɑːntiɑ

to make a fence for someone (see Molina); or, to build an enclosure or house of sticks or stalks for someone

synonym for chinamitl, an agricultural strip (see Spanish attestations for examples)

tʃiːnɑhtɬi
Orthographic Variants: 
chīnahtli

vermin (see Karttunen)

burnt smelling food.
1. for a food to taste or smell burned. 2. to have the smell of ground corn that has been left out a long time.
tʃinekistɬi

a child who cries a lot; a crybaby

a person of mixed ethnic heritage; or a Chinese person
(a loanword from Spanish)

tʃinoɑː

to burn fields

tʃipɑkkɑltik

something very clean