C / CH

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a noble person (see Molina)

nobility (see Molina)

kɑlpɑnwiɑ
Orthographic Variants: 
calpanuia

to go from house to house, distributing or collecting tributes (see Molina)

on top of a house or building.
kɑlpɑnoɑː

to go from house to house (see Molina)

1. to go from house to house selling s.t. 2. to go from house to house with an image of the Virgin.
kɑlpɑnpilli
Orthographic Variants: 
calpampilli, calpan pilli

a child of the nobility (see Molina); perhaps also a bastard child (see Sahagún)

kɑlpɑtɬɑ

to move (see Karttunen)

also called the texancalli, this was the house of the majordomos and stewards (see Sahagún)

kɑlpiʃkɑːjoːtɬ

the office of the calpixqui (steward, tax collector) (see Molina)

kɑlpiʃki
Orthographic Variants: 
calpixquin

steward, tax collector
The Tlaxcalan Actas: A Compendium of the Records of the Cabildo of Tlaxcala (1545-1627), eds. James Lockhart, Frances Berdan, and Arthur J.O. Anderson (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1986), 153.

to count houses; to take a census

a count of houses; a census

Orthographic Variants: 
calpulco

an indigenous temple (as translated from Sahagún)

Orthographic Variants: 
calpullalli

land pertaining to the calpolli (see our entry for calpolli for its various meanings; see attestations below)

Orthographic Variants: 
calpolatl, calpollatqui, calpullatquitl

property of the calpulli(?), from calpolli or calpulli plus tlatquitl(?) (see attestations)

Orthographic Variants: 
calpulle

someone pertaining to a calpolli (or calpulli); a priest; a parishioner
Robert Haskett and Stephanie Wood's notes from Nahuatl sessions with James Lockhart and subsequent research.

Orthographic Variants: 
calpuleque, calpulleque, calpoleque

calpolli officials
Source: James Lockhart, The Nahuas after the Conquest: A Social and Cultural History of the Indians of Central Mexico, Sixteenth through Eighteenth Centuries (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1992), 143.

also, a group of Toltecas Chichimecas who arrived to setle at Cholula were called "calpolleque;" the other group was called the "calmecactlaca" (sixteenth century Quauhtinchan)
Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca, eds. Paul Kirchhoff, Lina Odena Güemes, y Luis Reyes García (México: CISINAH, INAH-SEP, 1976), 147.

kɑlpoːlli
Orthographic Variants: 
calpoli, calpulli, calpuli

literally, "big house," usually a subunit of an altepetl, and earlier an egalitarian kin group with migration associations (see attestations)

Orthographic Variants: 
calpulpampoui, calpulpampohui, calpolpampoui

a citizen of the pueblo, or something that pertains to a certain neighborhood (see Molina)