C / CH

Letter C/CH: Displaying 5361 - 5380 of 5744
Orthographic Variants: 
icueta, cueta

account (see attestations)

s.o.’s business or affairs.

Rosary beads (see attestations)

kweːntɑtɑkɑ

to make ridges or furrows in order to plant something (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
cuenta, cuentas

beads (from the Spanish, cuentas, with the suffix -tli; suggests an early borrowing)

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), 122; citing Barry Sell, personal communication.

kweːntekɑ

to make ridges or furrows (see Molina)

a furrow or a ridge, in agriculture (see Molina)

kwentɬɑːliɑː
Orthographic Variants: 
cuentlāliā

to become furrowed (reflexive); or, to plow, turn up furrows (transitive) (see Karttunen)

an agricultural field (see attestations)

a round piece of land, or perhaps a parcel with sides measuring all the same length

kweːoloːloɑ

for the woman to tuck up her skirts or petticoats (see Molina)

kwepɑ

to turn; to return; to bring back; to translate (see Molina, Karttunen, and Lockhart); can also relate to becoming upset, e.g. -cuepa- = passive applicative form (see the attestation, amo quemania motecuepozque, people are not to get upset)

kwepkɑ

a return from a journey (see Molina)

kwepkɑtʃiːwɑ
Orthographic Variants: 
cuepcachiua

to do something backwards (see Molina)

kwepkɑtɬɑhpɑloɑ

to return a greeting to someone who is giving a salutation (see Molina)

for something to be paid back or restored (see Molina)

kwepkɑːjoːtiɑ

to give something in return, or to pay with the same type of coin (see Molina)

kwepkɑːjoːtiliɑ

to give something in return; or, to avenge an insult (see Molina)

kwepiliɑː

to return something to someone

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.

kwepiltiɑ

to get revenge; to give something in return; or, to respond in kind (see Molina)