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to open the door.
A. 1. ni. una persona abre una casa. “Juan abre cuando no esta su dueño”. 2. nic. una persona abre una casa para que entre alguien. “Sandra siempre le abre la puerta a su papá cuando llega de noche”. ni. una persona.
to open a house or a door so that s.o. or s.t. can enter.
A. 1. ni. una persona abre una casa. “Juan abre cuando no esta su dueño”. 2. nic. una persona abre una casa para que entre alguien. “Sandra siempre le abre la puerta a su papá cuando llega de noche”. ni. una persona.
to open the door for s.o.
#una persona hace que se habra un lugar para q puede entrar otra persona “cuando mi mama va a la royo y cuando regresa yo habro la casa por que ella no puede

street
(a loanword from Spanish)

adornments or furniture inside the house (see Molina)

kɑlli
Orthographic Variants: 
cally, canli, cali, catli

house, hut, building, rooms, 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.

to look toward inside the house (see Molina)

toward inside the house (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
calixatl

the door to a house (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
calixcopa

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

Orthographic Variants: 
calixquatl, callixquatl

the entryway or front of the house (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
calixxotl

entryway (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
calouicantli, callouicantli. ca

a house of many turns (see Molina)

kɑlloːtiɑː

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

the house (see attestations)

kɑlmɑkɑ

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

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

to light a fire and inaugurate a new building

Gran Diccionario Náhuatl, (Wimmer 2004, citing Sahagún), https://gdn.iib.unam.mx/diccionario/calmamali/42233

kɑlmɑnɑ

to build or construct houses (see Molina)

kɑlmɑnɑlistɬi

the building of houses (see Molina)