C / CH

Letter C/CH: Displaying 1521 - 1540 of 5780
senkimilli
Orthographic Variants: 
cenquimili

twenty; a load of cloths

senkiːʃtiɑ

to collect something scattered. (nic.)
to choose the best

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.

senkiːsɑ
Orthographic Variants: 
cenquiça

to join together or assemble somewhere

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 finish a task in one sitting.
# una persona termina todo un trabajo. “la mamá de Jorge cuando borda termina todo porque así no se equivoca”.
Orthographic Variants: 
cenquizca mauizotl

a complete honor; or, consummate and perfect dignity (see Molina)

worthy of being obeyed entirely (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
cenquizca tlaueliloc

an entirely perverse and evil person (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
cenquizca tlaçotlaloni

worthy of being entirely loved and wanted (see Molina)

senkiːskɑː
Orthographic Variants: 
zenquizca

totally; entirely; absolutely

See Molina's various examples, and: Michel Launey, An Introduction to Classical Nahuatl, translated and adapted by Christopher MacKay (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011), 114.

entirely and perfectly pure

Louise M. Burkhart, Before Guadalupe: The Virgin Mary in Early Colonial Nahuatl Literature, Institute for Mesoamerican Studies Monograph 13 (Albany: University at Albany, 2001), 9.

Orthographic Variants: 
cenquizca qualli, cenquizcaqualli, cenquizca cualli

entirely good (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
cenquizcaqualtilia, cenquizca qualtilia, cenquizca cualtilia

to sanctify someone completely (see Molina)

senkiːskɑːittɑ
Orthographic Variants: 
cenquizca itta

to come to understand something very well (see Molina)

senkiːski

a perfect thing (see Karttunen); something whole and perfect (see Molina)

something whole and fine, or something not divided, not cut up

senkiːstok

for everything to be together

sentɑkɑtɬ

a bunch or clump of herbs, thistles, lettuce, or cabbage (see Molina)

senteːkɑ

to reason in favor of something (see Molina)

sentekoneːtɬ

an only child (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
centecpanuia

to plunder a woman, for many to rape her (?) (see Molina)