C / CH

Letter C/CH: Displaying 4581 - 4600 of 5766
to tire s.o. with a task or by loading them with s.t. heavy.
# una persona hace que se canse el cuerpo de otro por un trabajo o con carga. “yo cansé a mi hermano porque lo hice trabajar muy rapido”.
a clump of trees.
1. forest. 2. field overrun with weeds.
path or road invaded by overgrowth.
a person or animal leaves the forest.
a wooded area where no one goes.

a place name or toponym; found in a list of places bordering on Cuitlahuac by W. Lehmann (1938, 296)

Gran Diccionario Náhuatl, citing A. Wimmer 2004; translated here to English by SW, https://gdn.iib.unam.mx/diccionario/cuatizatepec/46677

basic morpheme for tree, stick, wood.
Orthographic Variants: 
Cuetlaxteca

a kingdom of Tula (Tollan) that pertained to the Toltecs

(central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Literaturas de Anahuac y del Incario / Literatures of Anahuac and the Inca, ed. Miguel León-Portilla (Mexico City: Siglo Veintiuno Editories, 2006), 192.

kwɑːtɬɑkwɑːwɑk
Orthographic Variants: 
cuātlacuāhuac

hardheaded (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
quatlaueliloc, quatlahueliloc
Orthographic Variants: 
Quatlauiçe, Quatlauice, Quatlahuice

a Chichimec ruler of Huexotla (Huejutla) (see the Florentine Codex)

bow-head (as in bow and arrow), a metaphor for someone with crazy ideas (see attestations)

for a parent to speak seriously with a child or other person who has done s.t. wrong.
# una persona regaña a su hijo y otra persona cuando hace una cosa y no esta bien. “cuando era chiquito (a) le pegue con un palo a Oscar, y su mamá me aconsejo mucho”.