to bathe s.o.’s sick relative with a special medicinal herb.
# Baña de susto. Nic. Persona baña con medicina hierbal al hijo de otro cuando en flaca. “cuando bañe al hijo de mi nuera ella misma busco la medicina hierbal.”
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 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