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Letter C/CH: Displaying 721 - 740 of 5795

canahuacantzontli.

Orthographic Variants: 
canauacantzuntli, canahuacantzuntli

forelocks; locks of hair over the temples (see Molina)

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canahuacayotl.

Orthographic Variants: 
canauacayotl

a thinness, such as is found in a delicate cloth (see Molina)

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canahui.

kɑnɑːwi
Orthographic Variants: 
canāhui

for clothes to wear out (see Karttunen)

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canāhuiya.

for s.o. to begin to thin, wearing away due to use.
A. empieza a agujerarse la ropa, zapato y madera y se va perdiendo lo hancho. “Ya no uses tu zapato porque se adelgaza”
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canahya.

place, someplace.
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canapa.

kɑnɑhpɑ

somewhere, some place

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canauhconetl.

duckling (see Molina)

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canauhconetontli.

a small duck (see Molina)

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canauhquilitl.

kɑnɑwkilitɬ

purslane; a low, trailing plant, Portulaca oleracea, having yellow flowers, used as a salad plant and potherb

Dicionary.com, http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/purslane (see Molina)

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canauhtetl.

a duck egg (see Molina)

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canauhtli.

kɑnɑwtɬi

duck, referring to the general type of duck (bird) and more specific types (see Hunn, attestations)

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cancer.

cancer, a sign of the zodiac; actually, originally a loanword from Latin, although possibly similar in siixteenth-century Spanish; see Lori Boornazian Diel, The Codex Mexicanus: A Guide to Life in Late-Sixteenth-Century New Spain (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2018), 172–173. 

Also attested for (central Mexico, early seventeenth century) Codex Chimalpahin: Society and Politics in Mexico Tenochtitlan, Tlatelolco, Culhuacan, and Other Nahuatl Altepetl in Central Mexico; The Nahuatl and Spanish Annals and Accounts Collected and Recorded by don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Susan Schroeder (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), vol. 2, 128–129.

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cancuix.

asking where, where to (adverb) (see Molina)

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cancuixpan?

where to, through where, to what place? (adverb, interrogative)

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candado.

latch, lock
(a loanword from Spanish)

Leslie S. Offutt, "Levels of Acculturation in Northeastern New Spain; San Esteban Testaments of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries," Estudios de cultura náhuatl 22 (1992), 409–443, see page 434–435.

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candela yollotli.

candle wick (literally, candle heart)
(partially a loanword from Spanish)

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candela.

Orthographic Variants: 
cadela, camdela, catela, catelan, gandela, catella, candella, cantella, cantenla

candle(s) 

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candelaria.

a Catholic feast on February 2 in devotion to the Virgin Mary
(a loanword from Spanish)

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candelero.

candelabra
(a loanword from Spanish)

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candial.

a type of wheat dough
(a loanword from Spanish)

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