C / CH

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a chaplaincy; financial support for a priest
(a loanword from Spanish)

Orthographic Variants: 
capila, cabila, cabillia

chapel
(a loanword from Spanish)

chaplain
(a loanword from Spanish)

Here in This Year: Seventeenth-Century Nahuatl Annals of the Tlaxcala-Puebla Valley, ed. and transl. Camilla Townsend, with an essay by James Lockhart (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010), 94–95.

captain, leader of an armed group; in early sixteenth-century contexts, and with no referents, the term can refer to Hernando Cortés; leaders of painting groups were also capitanes

a chapter; a provincial chapter
(a loanword from Spanish)

a cape, cloak

kɑpolkwɑwitɬ
Orthographic Variants: 
capolquauhtli, capolquahuitl

cherry tree (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
capulquauhtla, capolquauhtla

cherry orchard (or, an orchard of cherry-like fruit, capulin/capolin)

Orthographic Variants: 
capulin

a local cherry-like tree, or the fruit of it (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
capullah, capulla

land planted in cherry trees (or cherry-like fruit trees)

kɑpolmekɑtɬ

a type of bindweed, vine (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
capuloctli

wine or liquor made from cherries (or cherry-like fruit)

kɑpoltik

black, dark (see Karttunen)

castrated and fattened pig.

a name, attested male in 16th-c. Mexico City (see attestations)

Orthographic Variants: 
capoti, cabute

a cape with sleeves, or one that flies around less than a regular cape; a coat

Orthographic Variants: 
caputzaui, caputzahui

to become, end up, or turn out black (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
caputzauiliztli, caputzahuiliztli

the blackness of something that has become increasingly black (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
caputzauhqui

a black thing (see Molina)

kɑpotseːwi
Orthographic Variants: 
capotzēhui

to turn black (see Karttunen)