C / CH | Nahuatl Dictionary

Letter C/CH: Displaying 4741 - 4760 of 5756

cuauhchayahuallotia.

Orthographic Variants:

quauhchayauallotia, quauhchayahuallotia

to make wooden bars for something (see Molina)

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Cuauhchichinolca.

Orthographic Variants:

Cuauchichinolca, Quauhchichinolca, Quauchichinolca

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.

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Cuauhchichinollan.

Orthographic Variants:

Quauhchichinolan, Cuauchichinola, Quauhchichinollan

a Nahua community in what is now the municipality of Mazatepec, in the state of Morelos, Mexico
(Cuernavaca region, ca. 1540s)
The Book of Tributes: Early Sixteenth-Century Nahuatl Censuses from Morelos, ed. and transl. S. L. Cline, (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center Publications, 1993), 132–133.

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cuauhchicolli.

Orthographic Variants:

quauhchicolli

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cuauhchimal.

Orthographic Variants:

quauhchimal

a monkey, a "known animal," (see Molina); the elements are wooden-shield or eagle-shield

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cuauhchimalli.

Orthographic Variants:

quauhchimalli

wooden shield (see Molina and Lockhart)

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cuauhchinamitl.

Orthographic Variants:

quauhchinamitl

a veranda, a wooden porch, a parapet, a fence, or a stockade (see Molina); of course, this can also represent the plural

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cuauhchiquihuitl.

Orthographic Variants:

quauhchiquiuitl, quauhchiquihuitl

a wooden basket

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cuauhchocholli.

Orthographic Variants:

quauhchocholli

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cuauhchocholpol.

Orthographic Variants:

quauhchocholpul, quauhchocholpol

a tall person (see Molina)

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cuauhchochopitli.

Orthographic Variants:

cuauhtotopitli

Golden-fronted Woodpecker, a bird (see Hunn, attestations)

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cuauhcihuatl.

Orthographic Variants:

quauhcioatl; quauhciuatl, quauhcihuatl

a mature woman (literally, eagle-woman)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 10 -- The People, No. 14, Part II, 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), 51.

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Cuauhcitlaltzin.

Orthographic Variants:

Quauhcitlaltzin

a tlatoani (tlahtoani) of the Chichimecas; started his rule in the year 2 Rabbit and died in the year 4 Rabbit (Quauhtinchan, s. XVI)
Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca, eds. Paul Kirchhoff, Lina Odena Güemes, y Luis Reyes García (México: CISINAH, INAH-SEP, 1976), 211, 212.

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