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Letter C/CH: Displaying 5621 - 5640 of 5795
kwitɬɑkɑpɑːni
kwitɬɑkɑʃʃoɑ

to shrink from the pain of a whipping (see Molina)

kwitɬɑkɑʃʃolistɬi
kwitɬɑtʃɑpɑːni
Orthographic Variants: 
cuitlachapāni

for a pustule or boil to throb (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
cuitlacheoaicpali

wolf skin seat

Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 209.

Orthographic Variants: 
cuitlacheoapetlatl

wolf skin mat

Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 209.

Orthographic Variants: 
cuitlachueue

the person who was in charge of the captives in the sacrificial ceremonies (see Sahagún)

kwitɬɑtʃitʃikilli

backbone (see Karttunen)

kwitɬɑtʃiːwiɑ
Orthographic Variants: 
cuitlachiuia
Orthographic Variants: 
cuitlacochiui

to become blotched (see Sahagún)

kwitɬɑkotʃin

an ear of maize infected with a fungus that turns the kernels dark gray and deforms them, edible and considered a delicacy (see Karttunen); an ear of maize that is shriveled, degenerated, different from the rest (see Molina); also, a bird (see Hunn, attestations)

blotched

(central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 10 -- The People, No. 14, Part 11, 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), 109.

maize or wheat that is shriveled (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
cuitlacochin

Curve-billed Thrasher, a bird (see Hunn, attestations)

kwitɬɑkojoːniɑ
kwitɬɑkwɑwitɬ

night jasmine, a tree with flowers that are fragrant by night (Cestrum nocturnum, Cestrum lanatum) (see Karttunen)

very ripe fruit (see Molina)

kwitɬɑkwepɑ

to back away, to run back away from others; or, to escape back to where one was? (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
Cuitlahuatzln, Cuitlauatzin, Cuitlahuac, Cuetlahuatzin, Cuetlahua

a personal name, given to rulers (and then, usually seen in the reverential); according to Gordon Whittaker, it is a common mistake to add the -c to the end of the personal name