C / CH

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to joke around with s.o.
A. nite. una persona bromista cuando dice algo. “Mi papá, cuando están visitantes primero hace unas bromas y despues comienzan a platicar
1. to check s.o.’s mouth when their tooth hurts. 2. to check an animals mouth when one is thinking of buying it.
A. nic. una persona le revisa su boca otra persona, fiera y animal doméstico para ver que es lo que le duele.
to answer s.o. back.
kɑmɑnɑltʃiːwɑ
Orthographic Variants: 
camanalchiua

to do something by means of making fun of someone or to pass the time

to joke around.
A. 1. nic. una persona platica con otra jugando. “Ofelia platica bromeando con su cuñada porque su hermano tiene otra mujer. 2. mo. Las personas bromean cuando estan jugando. “ Cuando nos juntamos solo bromeamos con mi hermano menor y mi hermana mayor.
kɑmɑnɑlwiɑ

to enunciate; to say thanks; or to tease someone with words

Orthographic Variants: 
camanalhuja

to soften; to cajole; to seduce (see attestations from Sahagún)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 2 -- The Ceremonies, No. 14, Part III, 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, 1951), 72.

kɑmɑnɑːlihtoɑː

to tell a joke

kɑmɑnɑllɑhtoɑ

to say something to pass the time, or to make fun

kɑmɑnɑːllɑhtoːlli

to jest, joke, ridicule

kɑmɑnɑːlli

a joke, a boast, a play on words; a jokester (see Molina and Karttunen); a fable (see Alva's guide to confession)

Bartolomé de Alva, A Guide to Confession Large and Small in the Mexican Language, 1634, eds. Barry D. Sell and John Frederick Schwaller, with Lu Ann Homza (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1999), 25.

kɑmɑnɑːloɑː

to tell jokes or to give thanks

to joke around.
A. 1. ni. una persona habla cuando solo estan jugando. 2. mo. Las personas bromean cuando estan jugando. “Cuándo nos juntamos solo bromean mi hermano menor y mi hermana mayor
for people to joke around with each other.
A. 1. ni. una persona habla cuando solo estan jugando. 2. mo. Las personas bromean cuando estan jugando. “Cuándo nos juntamos solo bromean mi hermano menor y mi hermana mayor
kɑmɑnɑloɑni

one who can tell jokes

kɑmɑnɑloːlistɬi

one who makes fun and plays with words (see Molina)

kɑmɑnekwiliwi

to make faces (see Karttunen)

kɑmɑpɑːkɑ

to rinse or wash one's mouth (reflexive); to wash out someone's mouth (transitive) (see Molina)