C / CH | Nahuatl Dictionary

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cihuatlampa.

siwɑːtɬɑːmpɑ

Orthographic Variants:

ciuatlampa, cioatlampa, cihuatlanpa, ciuatlanpa, cihoatlampa

toward the west (see Molina); where the sun set, the West, was named for the women who died in childbirth, the mocihuaquetzque or cihuateteo (see Sahagún)

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cihuatlani.

siwɑhtɬɑni

Orthographic Variants:

cihuahtlani

to seek or gain a woman for marriage (see Sahagún)

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cihuatlanqui.

siwɑhtɬɑnki

Orthographic Variants:

ciuatlanqui, cioatlanqui

matchmaker

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

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cihuatlapalihui.

Orthographic Variants:

cioatlapaliui

a robust woman

Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 10 -- The People, No. 14, Part 11, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1961), 51.

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cihuātlapiyalli.

female domesticated animal.

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cihuatlatlatquitl.

Orthographic Variants:

ciuatlatlatquitl

women’s clothing, dresses (see Molina)

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cihuatlatoani.

siwɑːtɬɑhtoɑːni

Orthographic Variants:

cihuatlahtoāni, çiuvatlatoā

a woman ruler (plural: cihuatlatoque)

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

also, a person's name? (see attestations)

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Cihuatlatoatl.

Orthographic Variants:

çiuvatlatoatl, çivatlatoa, Cihuatlahtoatl

a personal name; attested 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), 72.

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