C / CH

Letter C/CH: Displaying 801 - 820 of 5729
kɑpotstiktoːtotɬ
Orthographic Variants: 
capotztictōtotl

cowbird, grackle (see Karttunen)

Capricorn, a zodiac sign
(a loanword from Spanish/Latin)

(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.

Orthographic Variants: 
capricornos

capricorn, 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), 174.

Orthographic Variants: 
Capulhuac

a place name, an indigenous community in the Valley of Toluca, modern state of Mexico

a person wearing shoes (see Molina)

people wearing shoes (see Molina)

to hear s.t.
A.una perona, fiera y animal domestico llega a su oreja un sonido. “Una tarde prendo la radio y oigo ya la música” mo. Sonido entra en el oido de una persona, fiera y animal domestico. “Se escucha el agua cuando crece” B. se escucha.
kɑki

to hear, to understand, to listen

1. place where s.t. fits. 2. to fit somwhere.
# Persona, animal salvaje, animal domestico y algo, todavia puede ir en un lugar o cosa donde haya un espacio vacio”. “En esa caja bien que caba mi ropa”.
kɑkiliɑː

hear; listen; understand what others say (applicative form of caqui)

kɑkiːltiɑ
Orthographic Variants: 
caquīltiā

to cause others to hear or listen to something (see attestations)

1. to tell s.o. what s.o. else said. 2. to remind s.o. of what they have said or done, consciously or unsconciously.
kɑkiːtiɑː

announce; tell; notify (causative form of caqui) (see Molina); to get other people to listen to something (see Karttunen)

kɑkiʃtoːktɬi
Orthographic Variants: 
caquixtōctli

leather strap, leash (see Karttunen)

to make a sound.
A. una persona, fiera o algo hace un ruido. “Mucho se escucha ese carro porque està muy Viejo” B. escuchar algo
kɑkisti

to sound something; to be heard
James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 213.

kɑkistiliɑː

to expound, declare, gloss, or interpret something

kɑkistilistɬi

sounding, or sound (see Molina)

kɑkistini

anything that sounds good (see Molina)

kɑkistɬi

a sound, that which is heard; or, a person of worth (see Molina)