C / CH

Letter C/CH: Displaying 5281 - 5300 of 5732
kwekwetɬɑʃoɑ

to faint, flag

James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 216.

kweːkwetɬɑʃtik
Orthographic Variants: 
cuēcuetlaxtic

something flexible (see Karttunen)

kwekwets

mischievous and shameless (see Molina)

one who meanders; or, a manuscript copy (see attestations)

kwekwetsoɑ

to stir or move something about (transitive); or, to move or stir oneself (see Molina)

kwekwetsokɑ

to have an itch on one's body (see Molina)

kwekwetsokilistɬi

a bodily itch (see Molina)

a person's name (attested as male) (Tepetlaoztoc, mid-sixteenth century)
Barbara J. Williams and H. R. Harvey, The Códice de Santa María Asunción: Facsimile and Commentary: Households and Lands in Sixteenth-Century Tepetlaoztoc (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1997), 83.

flabby (see Sahagún attestations)

a cord or rope decorated with stone beads
Gran Diccionario Náhuatl, citing A. Wimmer 2004, "Corde ornée de perles de pierre," https://gdn.iib.unam.mx/diccionario/cuecuextli

frogs (see Molina)

to barely make out the form of s.t. or s.o.
A. ti. una persona, animal domestico y silvestre se vé un poco su cuerpo donde biene. “Martín cuando venía caminando se veia su camisa blanco”. B. se vé un poco
kwekwejokɑ
Orthographic Variants: 
cuecueioca

to shine brightly or sparkle; or, to swarm, seethe, boil with lice, fleas, worms, ants, people in the market, or fish in the water (see Molina); note the seeming relationship between shining brightly and things that move (SW)

earring(s) (see Molina)

kwekwejoːtiɑ

to make waves or undulations in the water (see Molina)

for an insect to tickle s.o.ʻs skin repeatedly.
A. nic. Un animalito silvestre sube en el cuerpo de una persona. “Araceli lo mató una hormiga porque le molestaba”. B. Un animalito molesta.
kwekweso

to tack, baste, or piece together that which is to be sewn (see Molina)

kwekʃolwiɑ
Orthographic Variants: 
cueicxolhuia

to jump over a stream, puddle, or irrigation channel or ditch, or something similar