C / CH

Letter C/CH: Displaying 4741 - 4760 of 5780
Orthographic Variants: 
quauhcaltepiton

a small wooden cage (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
quauhcaltontli

a small wooden cage (see Molina)

kwɑwkɑmɑk

forest (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
quauhcamac

a crack or a hole in a piece of wood (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
quauhcamactli

a crack or a hole in a piece of wood (see Molina)

kwɑwkɑmohtɬi
Orthographic Variants: 
cuauhcamohtli

cassava, a woody root used in making tapioca and cassava flour (manioc) (see Karttunen)

a sparseness of trees, trees that are spread thinly
Sahagún, Bernardino de, Antonio Valeriano, Alonso Vegerano, Martín Jacobita, Pedro de San Buenaventura, Diego de Grado, Bonifacio Maximiliano, Mateo Severino, et al. Historia general de las cosas de Nueva España (Florentine Codex), Ms. Mediceo Palatino 218–20, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Florence, MiBACT, 1577. Available at Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter, Alicia Maria Houtrouw, Kevin Terraciano, Jeanette Peterson, Diana Magaloni, and Lisa Sousa, bk. 11, fol. 116r. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/11/folio/116r . Accessed 12 November 2025.

kwɑwsektɬi

ice in trees, snow (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
quauhcelicayotl

the regrowth or a new shoot on a tree (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
quauhcellotl

the regrowth or a new shoot on a tree (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
quauhchayauac, quauhchayahuac

a wooden bar, or wooden bars (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
quauhchayauacayutia, quauhchayahuacayutia, cuauhchayahuacayutia
Orthographic Variants: 
quauhchayavali

cuauhchayahualli = verja de madera = a wooden gate
Tlachia, http://www.sup-infor.com/dico/Mh_19/ETAT_THE.HTM

quauhchayavali = a wooden railing
Kevin Terraciano, Codex Sierra (2021), 117 and 151.

Orthographic Variants: 
quauhchayauallo, quauhchayahuallo

something that has wooden bars (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
quauhchayauallotia, quauhchayahuallotia

to make wooden bars for something (see Molina)

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.

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.

Orthographic Variants: 
quauhchicolli
Orthographic Variants: 
quauhchimal

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

Orthographic Variants: 
quauhchimalli

wooden shield (see Molina and Lockhart)