C / CH

Letter C/CH: Displaying 801 - 820 of 5790
Orthographic Variants: 
capolocuili

a type of caterpillar that makes cocoons in the native "cherry" trees (capolin); the caterpillar is also called the ahuatl; they eat the greenery off the trees; they are not edible
Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter and Alicia Maria Houtrouw, "Book 11: Earthly Things", fol. 103r, Sahagún, Bernardino de. Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain. Transcribed and translated with notes by Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble. 2nd rev. ed. Santa Fe, NM: School of American Research / University of Utah Press, 1950–82. Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/11/folio/103r Accessed 7 November 2025.

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)

kɑpotstik

black (see Molina and Karttunen)

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.

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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)