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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" [calpulleque would be another spelling] (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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Calmecahua.

a title sometimes paired with tecuhtli (or teuctli), lord, apparently in a place called Calmecahuacan [see the Codex Chimalpahin (2016, 138)]; also, the name or title of someone who wrote a history of Tlaxcala in 1548 [Zelia Nuttall, Standard or Head-Dress? (1904, 18)]

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calmelactli.

kɑlmelɑktɬi

a large and long room, or the corridor of a house (see Molina)

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calmilli.

kɑlmiːlli

the same thing as callalli (land associated with the house) (see Molina)

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calmiltzintli.

Orthographic Variants: 
calmiltzin

good land, main holding generally near house

Robert Haskett and Stephanie Wood's notes from Nahuatl sessions with James Lockhart and subsequent research.

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calnacaztli.

kɑlnɑkɑstɬi

corner of the house (external); or, a canton, small settlement (see Molina)

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calnechca1.

neighbors.
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calnechca2.

close to s.o.ʻs house.
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calnehnemi.

Orthographic Variants: 
calnenemi
for a person to go from house to house.
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calnehnemīltiā.

Orthographic Variants: 
calnenemiltia
to take merchandise for sale or an image of the Virgin from house to house.
# Nic. Una persona anda pasando de una casa a otra un algo que vende o una cosa, animal muerto y a veces también La virgen Maria. “Samuel mató un armadillo y ahora anda ranchando para que le den dinero”.
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calnehuiantli.

Orthographic Variants: 
calneuiantli

a portion of land (or a house?) that belongs to the group (community) (see Molina)

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calnenepaniuhqui.

kɑlneːnepɑniwki
Orthographic Variants: 
calnēnepaniuhqui

a house of more than two stories (see Karttunen)

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calnenqui.

occupant, inhabitant, resident

(ca. 1540, Cuernavaca)
Ismael Díaz Cadena, "Libro de tributos del Marquesado del Valle. Texto en español y náhuatl," Biblioteca Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Cuadernos de la Biblioteca, Serie Investigación no. 5, pp. 12, 52.

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calnepaniuhqui.

kɑlnepɑniwki

two-story house (see Karttunen)

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calnepanol melactli.

a tall and long room of a house (see Molina)

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calnepanolli.

kɑlnepɑnoːlli
Orthographic Variants: 
calnepanōlli, calnepanoli

a house of two stories (see Lockhart); or, the upper floor on a house (?) (see Molina)

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calnonotza.

kɑlnoːnoːtsɑ

to come to an agreement during a dispute or lawsuit (see Molina)

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calocuilin.

kɑlokwilin

cocoon of the silkworm (see Molina)

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calohuicantli.

kɑlowihkɑːntɬi
Orthographic Variants: 
calouicantli

thing with many turns and returns

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