C / CH

Letter C/CH: Displaying 4861 - 4880 of 5780

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.

Orthographic Variants: 
quauhtechalotl
Orthographic Variants: 
quauhtecomatl

a gourd or the tree that bears the gourds
Frances Karttunen, unpublished manuscript, used here with her permission.

Orthographic Variants: 
quauhtecpantli

a wooden screen, lattice, grate, grill; perhaps a protective device made of wood (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
quauhtecpanyo

something involving lattice (see Molina); and see cuauhtecpantli

Orthographic Variants: 
quahtectli, quahtecctli, quatecctli, quauhtecctli, quauhtectli

cut wood; firewood; for a discussion of various kinds of wood that has been cut, including this term, see the Digital Florentine Codex, Book 11, f 119r., https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/book/11/folio/119r?spTexts=&nhTexts=

Orthographic Variants: 
quauhteixiptla xinqui.

one who carves wooden images [such as saints' images] in the round (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
quauhteixiptla
Orthographic Variants: 
quauhtelolouia, quauhtelolohuia
Orthographic Variants: 
quauhtelolotli