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Letter C/CH: Displaying 5441 - 5460 of 5744

cuexantli.

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.

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cuexcochtetl.

neck or neckline (see Molina)

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cuexcochtlaocoya.

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cuexcochtlaocoyaliztli.

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

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cuexcochtli.

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

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cuēxhuetzi.

for a woman’s skirt to fall down.
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cuexpalli.

kweʃpɑlli

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

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cuexteca.

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.

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cuextecatl.

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

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cuextli.

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

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cuexyo.

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

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cueyamolli.

kwejɑmoːlli
Orthographic Variants: 
cueyamulli

a frog stew or sauce (see Molina)

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cueyatl.

kweyɑtɬ
Orthographic Variants: 
cuiyatl

frog(s)
Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 202.

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cueye.

kweːyeh
Orthographic Variants: 
cuēyeh

someone who possesses a skirt, woman (see Karttunen)

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cueyōni.

1. to barely make out the form of s.t. or s.o. 2. for s.t. that is hidden to make a noise.
# Una persona, un animal silvestre, un animal domestico y una cosa no se ve bien porque es de noche y está lejos. “Mi mamá vé algo que se mueve en el patio talvez un hombre que quiere robar”.
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cueyoni.

kwejoːni

to shine brightly; or, to swarm with lice, fleas, worms, ants, people in the market, or fish in the water (see Molina)

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cueyōniā.

for an insect to tickle s.o.ʻs skin.
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cueza.

kwesɑ

to baste a garment together (see Karttunen)

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cuezalin.

the tail and wing feathers of the scarlet macaw or a cardinal; also, a flame (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Thelma Sullivan, "Tlatoani and tlatocayotl in the Sahagún manuscripts," Estudios de Cultura Nahuatl 14 (1980), 225–238. See esp. p. 234.

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Cuezaltzontecomatlan.

Orthographic Variants: 
Cueçaltzōtecomatlā

one of the boundaries of the Nonohualca of Tollan (Tula)
Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca, 4v. Taken from the image of the folio published in Dana Leibsohn, Script and Glyph: Pre-Hispanic History, Colonial Bookmaking, and the Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca (Washington D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks, 2009), 65. Paleography and regularization of this toponym by Stephanie Wood.

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