C / CH

Letter C/CH: Displaying 3201 - 3220 of 5779
to nod off to sleep while seated, after all.
to go to sleep after all.
Orthographic Variants: 
cocochiuayan

dormitory, inn, cell, or sleeping chamber (see Molina)

to fail to wake up at the accustomed time, after all.
for a s.o. or animal to watch over a person, another animal or s.t. at night, after all.

to deceive or seduce a woman (see Molina)

to lull a baby to sleep after all.
koːkotʃtikɑh
Orthographic Variants: 
cōcochticah

to be dozing (see Karttunen)

to no longer be sleepy after all.
kokosiwi
Orthographic Variants: 
cocociui

to burn one's mouth on peppers (see Molina)

to add chilli to food in order to make it spicy (hot) after all.
Orthographic Variants: 
cococpahtli

an herb (possibly Bocconia frutescens) used in a remedy for urinary obstruction

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), 159 and 161 note 5.

1. for a skin wound to become infected. 2. for a rash to appear where one has been bitten by an insect and then has scratched.
Orthographic Variants: 
cocodrillo

crododile

root of CŌCOHTZIN. dove.
small dove.
# Un pajarito chiquito; que se parece como un color gris; come ajojolin y gusanitos y está nada más en el monte y a veces en casa de alguien. “Esos tortolitos si le gusta los gusanitos porque estaban muchos en el palo y se lo comió todo”.
to buy s.t. after all.

a measure, perhaps a measuring instrument; the equivalent of 2 fanegas (?)
Robert Haskett and Stephanie Wood's notes from Nahuatl sessions with James Lockhart and subsequent research.

Orthographic Variants: 
cuatl

twins, two people born from the same womb; this is the origin of the contemporary Spanish term, "cuates"