C / CH

Letter C/CH: Displaying 5521 - 5540 of 5761
Orthographic Variants: 
cuicenca ayatemico titlachia

are you still sleepy? (asking one who has just awakened (see Molina)

kwitʃektik

something that is a little blackened or smoked (see Molina)

sooty (see Molina)

soot that remains on the ceiling as smoke rises.

soot (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
quiquaqualia, cuiquaqualia
to buy s.t. after all (when one is not totally convinced).
kwihkwi

to gather up dispersed things; to get ready, to be prepared; to take something away; to work wood or stone by chipping off the surface; to clean up a surface (see Karttuen); also, for a man to have relations with a woman

to sing continuously; or, to provide banquets (see attestations)

kwiːkwiːkɑni

a cricket, or a species of grasshopper (see Molina)

a cricket, or a species of grasshopper (see Molina)

kwiːkwiːkɑyoːtsin
Orthographic Variants: 
cuīcuīcayōtzin

a type of cricket, grasshopper (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
cuicuicoia

to hold a banquet (see attestations, Sahagún)

kwikwiwiɑ
Orthographic Variants: 
cuicuiuia

to cluck (for a chicken to make its sound) (see Molina) (an onomatopoetic word)

Orthographic Variants: 
cuicuilchapultic

something painted with various colors (see Molina)

to draw or paint on s.t. that belongs to s.o. else with many colores.
to take s.t. away from s.o. after all.
kwihkwiːliɑː

to take things, to take something from others; to commit robbery (see Karttunen); or, to resist (see Molina)

for s.t. to become stained by grime.
# Una cosa se cambia de color cuando lo pintan o cuando lo haya algún medicamento. “La camisa de Alfredo se despinta porque lo halló el cloro”.
kwihkwiliwki

varicolored

Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 210.