C / CH

Letter C/CH: Displaying 5421 - 5440 of 5732
Orthographic Variants: 
cuetlaxuauanqui

someone who tans animal skins (see Molina)

s.o. or s.t.ʻs skin.

This woman was the daughter of Tzihuactlatonaltzin, a noble dignitary in Azcapotzalco. She had a child by an eagle knight (name unknown); the child was Huehue Tezozomoctli, who became the first ruler of Azcapotzalco.

(central Mexico, seventeenth century)
Codex Chimalpahin: Society and Politics in Mexico Tenochtitlan, Tlatelolco, Culhuacan, and Other Nahuatl Altepetl in Central Mexico; The Nahuatl and Spanish Annals and Accounts Collected and Recorded by don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Susan Schroeder (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), vol. 2, 110–111.

kwetɬɑʃjɑmɑːniɑ

to tan or dress leather (see Molina)

kwetspɑl
Orthographic Variants: 
Quetzpal

a name (Cuetzpal or Quetzpal); or a noun (cuetzpal), referring to a lizard, an iguana, or to a glutton

Orthographic Variants: 
cuetzpalli

a lizard, an iguana (see Karttunen); also, a calendrical marker

kwetspɑlti

to act like a glutton (see Molina)

kweʃɑːntɬi
Orthographic Variants: 
cuixantli

the lapfolds of a loose garment used as something to carry things in

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.

neck or neckline (see Molina)

swollen tonsils; or, a throat disease (see Molina)

the back of the neck, nape of the neck (see Molina)

for a woman’s skirt to fall down.
kweʃpɑlli

long hair that young men leave on the nape of their neck (see Molina and Sahagún)

the people of the Huaxteca

Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 6 -- Rhetoric and Moral Philosophy, No. 14, Part 7, 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, 1961), 34.

kweʃteːkɑtɬ
Orthographic Variants: 
quextecatl

a special garment and/or a figure associated with the Huaxteca; a cap and the feathered regalia for a dance, apparently associated with the special figure; an ethnicity associated with the Huaxteca

someone or something related to the Huasteca region (see attestations); and see our entry for cuextecatl

Orthographic Variants: 
cuexyotl (?)

a design found on some war shields; see an article about it, with illustrations, in Arqueología Mexicana, https://arqueologiamexicana.mx/mexico-antiguo/el-cuexyo-chimalli-del-cas..., and see examples from the Codex Mendoza and other manuscripts in our online Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs

kwejɑmoːlli
Orthographic Variants: 
cueyamulli

a frog stew or sauce (see Molina)