C / CH

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fine crystal or glass

tʃipiːni

to drizzle, to drip

for a liquid to drip.
A. Baja poquito el agua. “ gotea de agua aquella ropa porque está mojado”. B. Gotea.
tʃipiːniɑ

to sprinkle drops onto something

to spill or throw out a liquid little by little.
# una persona tira o avienta un poco de caldo de la comida de alguien. “cuando termina de poner cosas en el altar mi papá riega”.
to drip s.t. on s.o.
# una persona le tira a alguien algo que esta aguado. “Manuel le echo café a su hermano en su camisa”.
bird that eats ticks.
place inhabited by lots of ticks.
tick.
#Un animalito salvaje que se encuentran en el monte en hojas o en zacate, y se suben mucho en los perros, caballos, toros y también en las personas, porque les chupan la sangre. “María donde despego un pinolillo empezó a salir sangre porque estaba muy bien pegado”.
covered with ticks.
Orthographic Variants: 
chipolcuzcatl

a necklace of snail shells, or perhaps other shells, too
On snail shell necklace, see Justyna Olko, Turquoise Diadems and Staffs of Office: Elite Costume and Insignia of Power in Aztec and Early Colonial Mexico (Warsaw: Polish Society for Latin American Studies and Centre for Studies on the Classical Tradition, University of Warsaw, 2005), 177.

Orthographic Variants: 
chipuli, chipulli, chipoli

a small shell (see Molina), one scholar suggests a snail shell (see Olko, entry for chipolcozcatl); might also be a marine shell

Orthographic Variants: 
chipo, xipon, xixipon

a tick (blood-sucking arachnid)

Gran Diccionario Náhuatl, citing an 18th-c manuscript, BnF 362; "garrapata," translated to English here by Stephanie Wood; https://gdn.iib.unam.mx/diccionario/chipotli/12847

tʃiki

to scrape or grate something

tʃikiwiɑ
Orthographic Variants: 
chiquiuia

to carry something in a basket; or, to strain something using a basket

tʃikiwitɬ
Orthographic Variants: 
chiquiuitl

a basket
The Testaments of Culhuacan, eds. S. L. Cline and Miguel León-Portilla (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center Publications, 1984), 13.

basket.
tʃikileːwtsɑhtsi
Orthographic Variants: 
chiquilēuhtzahtzi

to cry out loudly (see Karttunen)

a type of small worm that makes a loud noise when planting season approaches.