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Letter C/CH: Displaying 421 - 440 of 5729

calli.

kɑlli
Orthographic Variants: 
cally, canli, cali, catli

house, hut, building, structure, container; also, a calendrical marker and a personal name
James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 212.

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calliticpa nontlachia.

to look toward inside the house (see Molina)

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calliticpa.

toward inside the house (see Molina)

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callixatl.

Orthographic Variants: 
calixatl

the door to a house (see Molina)

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callixcopa.

Orthographic Variants: 
calixcopa

the front or front part of the house (see Molina)

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callixcuatl.

Orthographic Variants: 
calixquatl, callixquatl

the entryway or front of the house (see Molina)

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callixxotl.

Orthographic Variants: 
calixxotl

entryway (see Molina)

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callohuicantli.

Orthographic Variants: 
calouicantli, callouicantli. ca

a house of many turns (see Molina)

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callotia.

kɑlloːtiɑː

to give lodging to someone; to stay or lodge oneself in the house of another (see Molina)

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callotl.

the house (see attestations)

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calmaca.

kɑlmɑkɑ

to give one's house to another person (see Molina)

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calmahcāuhyān.

1. space between two houses or buildings. 2. cleft between bamboo poles tied together to make a wall.
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calmana.

kɑlmɑnɑ

to build or construct houses (see Molina)

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calmanaliztli.

kɑlmɑnɑlistɬi

the building of houses (see Molina)

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calmāpan.

walkway under the roof and outside the front of the house.
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calmāpanyō.

walkway under the roof and outside the front of the house.
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Calmaxalolcatl.

a personal name, attested in a tlaxilacalli of Santiago Tlatelolco in 1573 (see attestations)

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calmeca tlatolli.

Orthographic Variants: 
calmeca tlahtolli, calmeca tlatolli, calmecatlatolli, calmecatlahtolli

words said in long corridors; also, the sayings and stories of the ancients (see Molina); educated words (calmecac = school; tlahtolli = words, speech)

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calmecac.

kɑlmekɑk
Orthographic Variants: 
calmecatl

schools for youth, where they were trained in military, administrative, and religious duties; involved a rigorous lifestyle, with fasting, vigils, and self-mortification, such as bloodletting, midnight offerings to the deities, sweeping, and more. (central Mexico, sixteenth century)

Louise M. Burkhart, Holy Wednesday: A Nahua Drama from Early Colonial Mexico (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996), 58.

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calmecactlaca.

this term is used in the Historia Tolteca Chichimeca to refer to one group of the Tolteca Chichimecas; the other was called the "calpolleque"

(sixteenth century Quauhtinchan)
Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca, eds. Paul Kirchhoff, Lina Odena Güemes, y Luis Reyes García (México: CISINAH, INAH-SEP, 1976), 147.

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