C / CH

(Atenango, between Mexico City and Acapulco, 1629)
Hernando Ruiz de Alarcón, Treatise on the Heathen Superstitions That Today Live Among the Indians Native to This New Spain, 1629, eds. and transl. J. Richard Andrews and Ross Hassig (Norman and London: University of Oklahoma Press, 1984), 220.

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cayacihui.

kɑyɑhsiwi

Orthographic Variants:

cayahcihui

for clothes to wear out (see Karttunen)

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cayahua.

kɑyɑːwɑ

Orthographic Variants:

cayāhua

to blunder; to deceive someone, to mock someone (see Karttunen)

root of CAHCĀYAHUA. to deceive or mock s.o.

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cayanis.

gañanes (hired men, orthographic example comes from Mexico City, 1634) Frances Karttunen and James Lockhart, Nahuatl in the Middle Years: Language Contact Phenomena in Texts of the Colonial Period, Linguistics 85 (Los Angeles, University of California Publications, 1976), 103.

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caye amo.

not before (adverb) (see Molina)

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caye.

Orthographic Variants:

campaye, cayepa

to where, from where

Andrés de Olmos, Arte para aprender la lengua Mexicana, ed. Rémi Siméon, facsimile edition ed. Miguel León-Portilla (Guadalajara: Edmundo Aviña Levy, 1972), 188.

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