C / CH

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to have an illness characterized by laziness, anxiety, itching and a desire to only eat chicken or beef.
A. Una persona no tiene ganas, no quiere comer y no ya no tiene fuerza para hacer algún trabajo. B. Se siente deprimido.
Orthographic Variants: 
couixin

Aztec Rail, a bird (see Hunn, attestations); note that the sound the bird makes may be reflected in its name (audio perception)

Orthographic Variants: 
coxin

a cushion
(a loanword from Spanish)

pad (on a horse's back, for riding)
(a loanword from Spanish)

koːl
Orthographic Variants: 
cōl

something twisted (see Karttunen)

field or food that has a lot of coriander.

a side altar piece

mattress
(a loanword from Spanish)

a chicken hen that wants to roost once having laid her eggs.
Orthographic Variants: 
colegios, golesio, collegio

the school, a school
(a loanword from Spanish)

kolelektɬi
Orthographic Variants: 
coleletli

a certain demon (see Molina)

yellow fever (partly a loanword from Spanish, colera, cholera) (20th c., Milpa Alta)
Los cuentos en náhuatl de Doña Luz Jiménez, recop. Fernando Horcasitas y Sarah O. de Ford (México: UNAM, 1979), 36–37.

a type of cabbage (?)
(partly a loanword from Spanish, coles, cabbages, plus quiyotl, stem or sprout of a plant)

a small cabbage (partly a loanword from Spanish, coles, cabbages)

koːlwɑh
Orthographic Variants: 
cōlhuah, Culhua

resident of Culhuacan (see Karttunen)

koːlwɑhkɑːn
Orthographic Variants: 
cōlhuahcān

a place name, spelled Culhuacan today (see Karttunen); an early successor to Tollan, the Toltec capital, and seen as a seat of civilization; this became an important altepetl in the chinampa zone, in what is today southern Mexico City

koːlwɑhkɑtɬ
Orthographic Variants: 
cōlhuahcatl

resident of Culhuacan (see Karttunen)

an unusual way to speak of a person of Culhuacan/Colhuacan, which was more typically called a culhua or colhua; the plural from colhuacatl would be colhuaca, but colhuaque was more prevalent for the plural