C / CH | Nahuatl Dictionary

Letter C/CH: Displaying 3741 - 3760 of 5796

coyolomitl.

kojolomitɬ

a punch tool, or an awl (a pointed instrument) (see Molina)

coyolotoc.

to be in a place full of scorpions

(central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Thelma Sullivan, "Tlatoania and tlatocayotl in the Sahagún manuscripts," Estudios de Cultura Nahuatl 14 (1980), 225–238. See esp. p. 227.

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Coyoltecatl.

Orthographic Variants:

Cuyoltecatl

a person's name (attested male)

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Coyolton.

Orthographic Variants:

Cuyollto

a person's name (attested as male)

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coyoltototl

Orthographic Variants:

coioltototl

Red-winged Blackbird (see Hunn, attestations)

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the name of a female deity ("Bells Painted"), sister of Huitzilopochtli; part of the Xiuhtecuhtli Complex of deities, associated with hearth/fire and "paternalism" (parenting?)
"Table 3. Major Deities of the Late Pre-Hispanic Central Mexican Nahua-Speaking Communities." Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volume 6: Social Anthropology, ed Manning Nash (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1967).

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coyolxochitl.

koyolʃoːtʃitɬ

Orthographic Variants:

coyolxōchitl

amaryllis (see Karttunen)

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Coyonacazco.

a northeastern neighborhood of Tlatelolco, part of Mexico City; the site of the surrender of the Mexica in the Spanish/Tlaxcalan seizure of power (a battle that would later be reenacted)

John Bierhorst, A Nahuatl-English Dictionary and Concordance to the Cantares Mexicanos: With an Analytic Transcription and Grammatical Notes (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1985), 94.

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coyonenemi.

Orthographic Variants:

cuyunenemi

to crawl, or to go about on all fours like a coyote, referring to a child or baby who has begun to move independently (see Molina)

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coyoni.

koyoːni

Orthographic Variants:

cuyuni, coioni

for something to become punctured or pierced, opened (see Molina)

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coyōni.

for s.t. to begin to have a hole due to wear.

A. una cosa, olla se parte en redondo porque le hayo o le pegan con una cosa pesada. “esa olla se agojerio de abajo porque le hayo una piedra lo pusieron fuerte en el suelo.” B. agojero.

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coyonia.

koyoːniɑː

to punch a hole, to pierce, to bore a hole through (see Molina)

to make a hole in s.t.

A. persona, animal silvestre, o animal domestico hace un agujero en la tierra o en algun otra cosa. “Alejandro agujerea un carrizo porque su hermano le piden donde estudia.” B. agujerea.

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coyōniliā.

to make a hole in s.t. that belongs to s.o. else.

#hacer agujero. Nic. Persona, animal salvaje o animal domestico hace un hoyo en algo dueño de otro. “Manuel le agujereo la ropa de ahijado porque no le gusta como se pone.”

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