C / CH

Letter C/CH: Displaying 2901 - 2920 of 5744
a kind of small bee.
1. for seeds to fall from a plant and scatter. 2. for an animal to tear s.t. up.
# tla. El cilantro empieza a salir su flor y nacen chiquitos sus hojas porque ya están grandes. “Cuando mi papá tiraba la semilla del cilantro empieza salir su flor cuando ya terminan de crecer”
to cut up food into little pieces.
pebble, gravel.
very small seed.
simɑ

to prepare the leaf of a maguey (agave) plant in order to extract the fiber (see Molina)

siːmɑwiɑ
Orthographic Variants: 
cimauia

to put cimatl root in with the sap from the maguey (agave) to give it a good appearance (see Molina)

simɑpɑhtɬi
Orthographic Variants: 
cimapahtli

medicinal plant of the bean family the root of which can be used to induce vomiting (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
cimalon, cimalonti, cimalõti

an enslaved person who has run away (see attestations)

wild (as in fruit which grows in the wild).
simɑtɬ
Orthographic Variants: 
cimatli

wild potato, heartleaf horsenettle, or heartleaf nightshade (see attestations)

a plant with an edible root, or the root itself
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.

Orthographic Variants: 
simiento, çimento

foundation
(a loanword from Spanish)

a fricassee made of hare (see Molina)

sinkɑlli

corncrib (see Karttunen; see also our entry for cencalli)

a large ear of corn uncommenly tightly packed with kernels.

chisel (see attestations)

for an animal to eat corn.
for an animal to eat s.o.’s corn.