C / CH | Nahuatl Dictionary

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cuappatolli.

Orthographic Variants:

quappatolli, quapatolli, cuapatolli

the game of chess (see Molina); might this be a reference to a wooden board game that might not always be chess, but something like patolli?

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cuappetlacalli.

Orthographic Variants:

quappetlacalli, quapetlacalli, cuapetlacalli

a wooden chest or trunk (see Molina)

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cuappetlatl.

Orthographic Variants:

cuappetlatl, quappetlatl

the eagle mat

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a reed tube (with ritual significance), the eagle tube
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 6 -- Rhetoric and Moral Philosophy, No. 14, Part 7, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1961), 14, 106.

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cuappitzactli.

Orthographic Variants:

quappitzactli

a thin stick (see Molina)

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cuappitzahui.

Orthographic Variants:

quappitzaui, quappitzahui

to go numb or stiff (see Molina)

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cuappitzahuiliztli.

Orthographic Variants:

quappitzauiliztli, quappitzahuiliztli

to act of becoming numb or stiff (see Molina)

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cuappitzauhqui.

Orthographic Variants:

quappitzauhqui

a stiffened or stiff person, rough, harsh; or, dry tortillas; or, a person who is skinny and wiry (like a thin stick) (see Molina)

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cuappitzoa.

Orthographic Variants:

quappitzoa

to end up stiff and rigid, like a stick (see Molina)

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cuappitztic.

Orthographic Variants:

quappitztic

a stiffened or stiff person, rough, harsh; or, dry tortillas; or, a person who is skinny and wiry (like a thin stick) (see Molina)

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cuapuertah.

wood door.

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cuaquechiā.

to stand s.t. up, supporting it with a stick.

# nic. Una persona le recarga un palo a una cosa porque no quiere que se caiga. “Roberto le recarga un palo a su casa porque ya se está cayendo y no quiere que se caiga”.

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cuaquechiliā.

to buttress a house or prop up another thing that belongs to s.o. else.

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cuaquepi.

kwɑːkepi

Orthographic Variants:

cuāquepi

someone crazy (see Karttunen)

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cuaqueptoc.

kwɑːkeptok

Orthographic Variants:

cuāqueptoc

someone crazy (see Karttunen)

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cuaquetzalli.

beam or post used to support or steady s.t.

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cuaquimiliuhcayotl.

Orthographic Variants:

quaquimiliuhcayotl

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cuaquimiloa.

Orthographic Variants:

quaquimiloa

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cuāquīxtiā.

for a shampoo or treatment to leave s.o.’s hair very clean.

# nech. Una persona le queda el shampoo con la que se lava la cabeza. “Mi hermana se compró un shampoo ayer y le saca muy bien la mugre porque su cabello se queda muy lacio”.

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cuāquīza.

for a person’s hair to fall out.

# ni. Una persona se caí su cabello porque no le queda el jabón que usa o el agua con la que se baña. “Amelia se le caí mucho su cabello porque se bañó con el agua muy caliente”.

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