C / CH

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sentsompɑ

four hundred times (see Karttunen)

the four hundred children of the goddess Coatlicue

(central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 3 -- The Origin of the Gods, Part IV, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1978), 1.

sentsontekomɑtɬ
Orthographic Variants: 
centzuntecomatl

a sprig of wheat or of chia (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
centzunteti

to become hardened or obstinate (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
centzontlatolle, centzuntlatolle, centzontlatolli, zentzontlahtoleh, centzontli tlahtolli, centzontli tlatolli

Northern Mockingbird (see Hunn, attestations)

Orthographic Variants: 
centzuntli ipan caxtulpoalli, centzontli ipan caxtulpoalli

700 (i.e. 400 + [15 x 20])

Orthographic Variants: 
centzontli ypan matlacpohualli, centzontlil ypan matlacpoalli, centzuntli y pammatlacpoalli, centzuntli ypam matlacpoalli

600 (i.e. 400 + [10 x 20]) (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
centzuntli ypam matlacpoalli

600 (i.e. 400 + [10 x 20]) (see Molina)

sentsontɬi
Orthographic Variants: 
sentzontli, centzuntli

400, or one count [of four hundred]; often, this number of grasses in a bundle (sprigs of herbs) (see Karttunen and Molina); lots, or an innumerable amount (Lockhart)

four hundred.
Orthographic Variants: 
centzontotochti

Four Hundred Rabbits, a way of referring to a pulque, an alcoholic beverage (see attestations and see our entry for Totochtin)

for all to go somewhere together, or to fall together (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
cenxiquipilli ypan centzuntli ypan matlacpoalli

8,600 (i.e. 8000 + 400 + [10 x 20]) (see Molina)

a spoonful

SEE "cenxumatli" in Víctor M. Castillo F., "Unidades nahuas de medida," Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl 10 (1972), 195–223, ver la página 204.

senyɑː
Orthographic Variants: 
cenyā

to go along well (see Karttunen)

1. for a body of water or land to seem limitless. 2. to do s.t. constantly. 3. to do s.t. often.
senjɑkɑːnɑ

to govern or command (see Molina and Karttunen)

senjɑlistɬi

a place of residence

literally, entire war, but a personal name (see attestations)