C / CH

Letter C/CH: Displaying 3401 - 3420 of 5778
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

koːlwiɑː
Orthographic Variants: 
culhuia

to take someone in circles to a place, or to go around somewhere in order to not pass by someone (see Molina)

a personal name; also, seemingly someone associated with farming (see attestations)

koːliwi
Orthographic Variants: 
coliui

to bend, curve, turn

koːliwki

a twisted thing, or something lying down

koːliwtok
Orthographic Variants: 
cōliuhtoc

something curved (see Karttunen)