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Letter C/CH: Displaying 1001 - 1020 of 5795

cayacihui.

kɑyɑhsiwi
Orthographic Variants: 
cayahcihui

for clothes to wear out (see Karttunen)

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cayactic.

rare and scarce
Gran Diccionario Náhuatl, citing Wimmer (2004). https://gdn.iib.unam.mx/diccionario/cayactic/42687

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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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cayani.

gañán = a resident worker, typically on an estate, a hired hand (see the entry for gañán)

Rebecca Horn's notecards from Nahuatl study sessions with James Lockhart, ca. late 1970s and early 1980s.

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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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cayehualli.

kɑyewɑlli

andiron (see Karttunen)

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cayehuatl o.

that is it (see Molina)

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cayepa?

where to, through where, to what place? where is it? (adverb, interrogative) (see Molina)

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cayocoh.

marble (toy).
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cayuhquimma.

it comes to that, or it is like that

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cayzca.

you see here; or, I have here (adverb) (see Molina)

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cazamo.

Orthographic Variants: 
caçamo

no, it will not be like that; an adverb that negates (see Molina)

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cazcabel.

rattlesnake.
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caztiah.

Spanish language.
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Ce Acatl.

One Reed; a calendrical name, sometimes used for Quetzalcoatl, Tepeyollohtli, and Tlahuizcalpan Teuctli; in the Treatise, it is a tonalli that can be summoned

(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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ce amatl cuelpachihui.

Orthographic Variants: 
ceamatl cuelpachiui

a sheet of paper

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ce amatlapalli.

the leaf of a tree, or an herb with wide leaves

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Ce Atl.

Orthographic Variants: 
cē-ātl

One Water; a calendrical name; in the Treatise, it is given as an example of how a tonalli can be summoned

(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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