C / CH

Letter C/CH: Displaying 4581 - 4600 of 5761
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”.
during a dance, a man hugs and lifts into the air the woman whom he wishes to wed, and she cannot object.
A. nic. en un baile, una persona varón alza a una mujer que, ya se quiere casar con ella. “Martín cunado se casó, nadamás alzó a su mujer y la trajo a su casa”. B. alzar.
Orthographic Variants: 
quatlalhuayotl

the veins and nerves from the head (see Molina)

intelligent person who is easily understood.
# ni. Es muy inteligente una persona porque se entiende muy bien todo lo que él dice. “Adrián es muy inteligente porque aunque es chiquito hace muchas cosas buenas”.