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Letter C/CH: Displaying 5501 - 5520 of 5795
kwejɑmoːlli
Orthographic Variants: 
cueyamulli

a frog stew or sauce (see Molina)

kweyɑtɬ
Orthographic Variants: 
cuiyatl

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

kweːyeh
Orthographic Variants: 
cuēyeh

someone who possesses a skirt, woman (see Karttunen)

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”.
kwejoːni

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

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

to baste a garment together (see Karttunen)

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.

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.

apparently equivalent to cuezcomatl, the structure for corn storage that dates from pre-contact times (see attestations)

kweskomɑtʃikiwitɬ
Orthographic Variants: 
cuezcomachiquiuitl
kweskomɑlli

the granary top, lid, or covering (see Molina)

kweskomɑteːntɬi

the edge, lip, or side of the granary (see Molina)

kweskomɑtitɬɑn

in the midst of the granaries (see Molina)

kweskomɑtɬ
Orthographic Variants: 
cuetzcomatl, cuescomatl, cuexcomatl, cuexcomate, cuescomate (the latter two, as a loanword in Spanish)

corncrib, maize storage structure, grain storage bin; this term entered Spanish as cuezcomate (see Molina and the range of attestations)

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.

kweskomɑʃiːktɬi

the ventilation feature of the granary (see Molina)

kwehsoɑː
Orthographic Variants: 
cuehzoā

to be disturbed, bothered; to disturb, bother someone (see Karttunen)

1. to be worried about s.t. or s.o. 2. to become sad.
A. nimo. Una persona que está triste y quiere llorar.”Eduardo está triste porque lo dejó su esposa”. B. Estar triste.
sadness or worry