to delay, to take a long time; or to spend the whole day somewhere
to cause s.o. to spend an entire day on a task.
# nic. Persona que hace que esté un día en un lugar otro con un fin. “Yo hice que el curandero estuviera todo el día en mi casa porque estábamos muy enfermos”.
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), 87.
One-courtyard-owners (each owner has one courtyard); in the Treatise, a ritual name for the hands
(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), 221.
One-face-owners; and each owner has one face; in the Treatise, a ritual name for human fingers
(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), 221.