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C / CH

Letter C/CH: Displaying 1281 - 1300 of 5795

something lasting or eternal (see Molina)

semihkɑn
Orthographic Variants: 
cemihcan

eternally, perpetually, forever (see Karttunen)

a unique friendship among people who love each other (see Molina)

semikʃotɬɑ

to completely disregard others (see Molina)

to suffer from everything always (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
cemilcaua

to always be forgetting something (see Molina)

travel performed in one day; or, a day's worth of work, labor (see Molina)

semilwitekitɬ

the labor or the work of a single day (see Molina)

to work a full day someplace.
A.1. una persona trabaja en la milpa un dia. “Aracely su papa siempre se hace todo el día cuando cosecha porque ya no le quieren ayudar” 2. Ni. Una persona, fiera y animal doméstico tarda un dia cuando hece un trabajo. “Ese pollo ya se hizo un dia aya arriba no ha ido a buscar de comer, creo que está enfermo” B.todo el día.
semilwitiɑː

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”.
semilwitiltiɑ

to detain someone for the space of a day (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
cemilhuitl cenyoal

day and night (see Molina)

a day; a day's work (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
cemilhuitl tlaxtlauilli

the pay for one day of work, the daily wage (see Molina)

semilwitɬ

one day, often taken to mean "all day"

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.

all day.
Orthographic Variants: 
cemilhuitlapoalli, cemiluitlapoalli, cemjlvitlapoalli

a day sign (of the calendar) (see Sahagún)

day sign, a feature of the calendar and predicting one's fate at birth (see attestations)

to hide from someone all their property (see Molina)

twenty pieces of cloth, mats, pieces of paper, tortillas, etc. (flat and thin things)

semihtɑlwiɑ

to propose all together, to propose firmly or forcefully (see Molina)