C / CH

Letter C/CH: Displaying 2801 - 2820 of 5779
Orthographic Variants: 
ciua tlacamichin

mermaid (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
ciua tlaueliloc, cihua tlaueliloc

a womanizer; or, a "bad" woman (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
ciuatlauelilocati, cihua tlauelilocati, ciuatlahuelilocati

to be a womanizer

Orthographic Variants: 
ciua tlatlatquitl

apparel and furniture (property) that a woman brings to a marriage (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
ciua tlahtoani, cihua tlatoani

a noblewoman, a woman of very high stature, such as a queen or a marquise

Orthographic Variants: 
ciua tlayelli, cihua tlaelli, ciua tlaelli

a woman's period, menstruation(?); tlayelli also refers to bloody diarrhea

Orthographic Variants: 
ciua tlazoua

a fan of women, but not with bad intentions (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
ciua

women

siwɑːkɑːwɑlli
Orthographic Variants: 
cihuācāhualli

widow (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
zihuacali çihuacalli

“woman-house” (possibly a common room) -- probably a civil category of property, possibly part of a woman's dowry

S. L. Cline, Colonial Culhuacan, 1580-1600: A Social History of an Aztec Town (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1986), 235. See also Sarah Cline, "The Testaments of Culhuacan," in James Lockhart, Lisa Sousa, and Stephanie Wood, eds., Sources and Methods for the Study of Postconquest Mesoamerican Ethnohistory (Eugene, OR: Wired Humanities Project, e-book, 2007.

siwɑːkoːɑːtɬ

a deity, literally "female serpent," an earth goddess; also referred to the second highest political office in the Tenochcan Mexica political structure, after the tlahtoani
Susan Kellogg, Law and the Transformation of Aztec Culture, 1500-170 (Norman and London: University of Oklahoma Press, 1995), 222; and Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan, et al. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 105.

siwɑːkokoːlli
Orthographic Variants: 
ciuacocolli

menstruation; a woman's custom; or, a woman's blouse (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
Çivacvcvxqui, Çivacocosqui, Çivacocoxqui

a person's name (gender not made clear)

siwɑːkoneːtɬ
Orthographic Variants: 
cihuāconētl

female child (see Karttunen)

siwɑːkwɑːkwiːlli
Orthographic Variants: 
çyuaquacuili iztac çiuatl

a priestess of Iztac Cihuatl (White Woman) in Atenchicalcan

Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 88.

female priest, older and of higher status

Susan Kellogg, Law and the Transformation of Aztec Culture, 1500-1700,( Norman and London: University of Oklahoma Press, 1995), 223.

Orthographic Variants: 
Zivacuitlapil

a person's name

Orthographic Variants: 
ciuaua

married man

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), 215.

siwɑːwɑːnjoːlkɑtɬ
Orthographic Variants: 
ciuauanyolcatl, ciuahuayolcatl, cihuauanyolcatl

relative through marriage (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
ciuauanyolcayotl

kinship through marriage (see Molina)