C / CH

Letter C/CH: Displaying 821 - 840 of 5767
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)

a weapon; a short-barrelled musket?
(a loanword from Spanish)

jail (a loanword from Spanish)

Orthographic Variants: 
calax

carders (to prepare wool or cotton for for spinning) (see attestations)

a load; also, a measure of maize seed, which also translates into a certain amount of land (e.g. a field into which can be planted one carga of maize)

charge
(a loanword from Spanish)

Caterina Pizzigoni, ed., Testaments of Toluca (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Center Publications, 2007), 44.

Orthographic Variants: 
charidad

charity (see attestations)

Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor (1519–1556), and Charles I, king of Spain (1516–1556)

Carmelites; a Roman Catholic religious order of the Brothers of Our Lady of Mount Carmel founded in the 12th c.
(a loanword from Spanish)

Orthographic Variants: 
calneçelo

a butcher; this term appears in the Matrícula de Huexotzinco folio 648 recto

Orthographic Variants: 
carnello, galnero

ram, sheep (a loanword from Spanish)

Orthographic Variants: 
carnestoretas

Shrovetide (a Catholic religious observation; a loanword from Spanish)

(ca. 1582, Mexico City)
Luis Reyes García, ¿Como te confundes? ¿Acaso no somos conquistados? Anales de Juan Bautista (Mexico: Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, Biblioteca Lorenzo Boturini Insigne y Nacional Basílica de Guadalupe, 2001), 142–143.

cattle prod (?) (see attestations)
(a loandword from Spanish)

e.g. the Jesuit father Horacio Carochi was an expert in Nahuatl; his grammar (Arte de la Lengua Mexicana, 1645) is unequaled, particularly rich for its helpful diacritics

See Sell's comments in 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), 20.