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C / CH

Letter C/CH: Displaying 1261 - 1280 of 5795

a long and stable stretch of land (see Molina)

a leaf from a wide herb; or, a bird's wing; or, a page from a book (see Molina)

a small leaf from a tree or herb, or a small wing (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
cematzaqualtin

a tenement block; a place of multiple lodgings; or, a neighborhood (see Molina)

a thing or farm that belongs to the whole community (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
çeme

one of a group

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.

to rather do s.t.
Orthographic Variants: 
cēmeh

plural of ce (one), one of several (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
cemeua

to be of the same age or of the same kin (see Molina)

semeːlleh
Orthographic Variants: 
cemēlleh, cemele

unity, peace, tranquility; or, the opposite, when paired with negation: disharmoniously (see Karttunen)

a place name, one of the boundaries of the Nonohualca of Tollan (Tula)
Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca, 4v. Taken from the image of the folio published in Dana Leibsohn, Script and Glyph: Pre-Hispanic History, Colonial Bookmaking, and the Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca (Washington D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks, 2009), 65. Paleography and regularization of this toponym by Stephanie Wood.

a small ear of corn (see Molina)

semeːltiɑ

to give pleasure to another person, help that person have fun (see Molina)

an ear of corn, maize

Alfonso de Rosenzweig-Díaz, Mexicanidad de México, vol. 2, 1957, 98.

semi

all at once, one time, once

semiɑːniliɑ

to hide all that you have from others (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
camihcac nemiliztli

eternal life (see Molina)

semihkɑk
Orthographic Variants: 
cemicac, zemicac, cemihcac

always, for always, all the time, eternally, forever

semihkɑkɑːyoːliːwɑyɑːn
Orthographic Variants: 
cemihcacāyōlīhuayān

place of eternal life (see Karttunen)

semihkɑkɑːyoːlistɬi
Orthographic Variants: 
cemihcacāyōliztli

eternal life (see Karttunen)