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Letter C/CH: Displaying 2541 - 2560 of 5795

chipolcozcatl.

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.

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chipolli.

Orthographic Variants: 
chipuli, chipulli, chipoli, chipolin, chipulin

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

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chipotli.

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

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chiqueroh.

pigsty, pen.
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chiqui.

tʃiki

to scrape or grate something

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chiquihuia.

tʃikiwiɑ
Orthographic Variants: 
chiquiuia

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

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chiquihuitl.

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.
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chiquileuhtzatzi.

tʃikileːwtsɑhtsi
Orthographic Variants: 
chiquilēuhtzahtzi

to cry out loudly (see Karttunen)

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chiquilīchin.

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

a cicada

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chiquilictli.

tʃikiliːtʃtɬi
Orthographic Variants: 
chiquilīchtli

cicada (see Karttunen)

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chiquilihui.

to lean to one side, to be off balance.
A. Una cosa pesa en un solo lado. “la carga del caballo pesa en un solo lado,que lo areglen, porque se se va caer”. B. Pesa en un solo lado.
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chiquilitzatzi.

tʃikilitsɑhtsi

to yell or cry out loudly

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chiquilitzatziliztli.

tʃikilitsɑhtsilistɬi

loud yells or cries

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chiquilitzatzini.

tʃikilitsɑhtsini

one who yells or cries out loudly

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chiquiloā.

to lean s.o., an animal or s.t. to the side.
A. nic. Una persona no lo suba bien a alguien o una cosa donde está. “Mi bebé cuando lo acuesto en su cuna lo inclino tantito para que no se le suba”. B. No subar bien.
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chiquiltic.

s.o. or s.t. that is leaning or advances in a leaning position.
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chiquimolin, maquizcoatl mochihua.

Orthographic Variants: 
chiquimolin, maquizcoatl mochiua

to be a gossiper (see Molina)

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chiquimolin.

tʃikimolin

a gossiper (see Molina); Imperial Woodpecker, bird (see Hunn, attestations)

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chiquimolin.

tʃikimolin

a bird: a goldfinch or a nightingale?

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