C / CH

Letter C/CH: Displaying 4741 - 4760 of 5744
Orthographic Variants: 
quauhchiquiuitl, quauhchiquihuitl

a wooden basket

Orthographic Variants: 
quauhchocholli
Orthographic Variants: 
quauhchocholpul, quauhchocholpol

a tall person (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
cuauhtotopitli

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

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.

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.

Orthographic Variants: 
Quauhcoatl, Quauhcohuatl

a personal name, attested male as seen in San Diego Amanalco, part of Tenochtitlan, in 1563

Orthographic Variants: 
quauhcocolli

a hound made from wood (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
quauhcocotoctli

pieces of wood (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
quauhcocoyoctli

stocks (for holding a person), prison; or, a hole made in wood (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
quauhcomitl

a wooden pulpit, or a tunnel (?), or a pipe (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
quauhcoxolitli

a pheasant (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
quauhcoyauac, quauhcoyahuac

the distance or space between beams in a wooden structure (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
quauhcoyametl

a wild boar (see Molina; transl. to Engl. here by Stephanie Wood); this is an animal found in the woods

Orthographic Variants: 
quauhcoyoctli

stocks, prison, or a hole made in wood; or, wood with holes carved in it (see Molina)

a personal name; e.g., an Alonso Cuauhcoyotl is mentioned in the Códice de Santa María Asunción, and a Martín Cuauhcoyotl is found on f. 897r of the Matrícula de Huexotzinco (SW)

a wooden collar put on slaves or captives; it was often connected to canes or sticks for controlling their movement

kwɑwkweːtʃtɬi
Orthographic Variants: 
cuauhcuēchtli

wood debris, wood shavings, sawdust (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
quauhcuezcomatl

a granary made of wood; primarily used to store dried maize (corn), but also beans and chia (the wrinkled chia and the small seeds)

kwɑwwɑwkɑlli

cage (see Karttunen)