C / CH

Letter C/CH: Displaying 4861 - 4880 of 5790
Orthographic Variants: 
quauhpitzactli

a thin stick or staff (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
quauhpitzaui, quauhpitzahui
kwɑwpitsɑːwi
Orthographic Variants: 
cuauhpitzāhui

to get hard, tough; to get thin (see Karttunen)

a wooden flute (see attestations)

kwɑwpitsoɑː
Orthographic Variants: 
cuauhpitzoā

for someone to become stiff, to become stiff, to be steadfast; to stiffen someone’s resolve, to give someone courage(see Karttunen)

kwɑwpitsotɬ
Orthographic Variants: 
cuauhpitzotl

peccary, wild pig (see Karttunen)

kwɑwpitstik
Orthographic Variants: 
cuauhpitztic

someone or something thin, tough stiff (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
quauhputzalli, quauhpotzalli, cuauhputzalli

undergrowth or weeds in the woods (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
quauhquechilia

an eagle with rich feathers
Antonio Peñafiel, Nombres geográficos de México (1885).

Orthographic Variants: 
quauhquechtli
kwɑwkekeːʃ
Orthographic Variants: 
cuauhquequēx

woodpecker (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
quauhquetzalli
Orthographic Variants: 
quauhqui
Orthographic Variants: 
Quauhquimichi, Quauhquimichin

a person's name (gender not made clear)

the Eagle Door or Eagle Gate to the Templo Mayor patio (the location is a matter of some debate--see attestations); also cited as a neighborhood (barrio) of Tenochtitlan

a title given to a principal for distinguished service in war (see attestations in Spanish); this was also used as a name, possibly, by a tribute payer in Huejotzinco (see the Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 700 recto)

Orthographic Variants: 
quauhtapazolli
Orthographic Variants: 
cuauhtotopotli, quauhtatala, quauhtotopotli

Golden-fronted Woodpecker, a bird (see Hunn, attestations), the -tatala part may refer to a large torso or chest

Orthographic Variants: 
coauhteca, quauhtecatl

"eagle-man" (sacrificial victim in the month of Tlacaxipehualiztli)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 2 -- The Ceremonies, No. 14, Part III, 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, 1951), 47.