C / CH

Letter C/CH: Displaying 1701 - 1720 of 5731

one time; one

the same amount again (see Siméon)

seppɑ
Orthographic Variants: 
cepa, cecpa

once, one time (see Molina, Karttunen, and Lockhart)

seppɑwiɑː
Orthographic Variants: 
ceppahuiā

to review, revise something (see Karttunen)

seki
Orthographic Variants: 
cequin

someone; one part, part of something, a separate part, a certain quantity (see Molina, Karttunen, and Lockhart)

some people; some of them; a number of

Orthographic Variants: 
sera, çera

wax, candles
(a loanword from Spanish)

a Roman goddess
(a loanword that came from Spanish into Nahuatl)

Orthographic Variants: 
siriyo

a match, a torch
(a loanword from Spanish)

Orthographic Variants: 
Zerón

a name from Spain, taken on by indigenous nobles; don Martín Cerón was a Nahua ruler of Xochimilco Tepetentli who married doña Francisca de Guzmán (another Spanish name borne by indigenous nobility), and from this union was born doña María Cerón (who married don Fernando de la Cerda, her nephew, and from this union was born don Alonso de la Cerda, who was brought up in Xochimilco); don Martín and doña Francisca also had a daughter named doña Francisca, a daughter doña Juana, and a son, also called don Martín Cerón [Piltzintli]

(central Mexico, seventeenth century)
Codex Chimalpahin: Society and Politics in Mexico Tenochtitlan, Tlatelolco, Culhuacan, and Other Nahuatl Altepetl in Central Mexico; The Nahuatl and Spanish Annals and Accounts Collected and Recorded by don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Susan Schroeder (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), vol. 2, 98–99, 102–103.

lock
(a loanword from Spanish)

a horse, donkey or mule that is unbroken or scares easily.

a Spanish surname; e.g. don Juan de Cervantes, bishop of Oaxaca

(central Mexico, 1614)
see Annals of His Time: Don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, James Lockhart, Susan Schroeder, and Doris Namala, eds. and transl. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006), 282–283.

my debt; brother or sister

Orthographic Variants: 
cetia yn atl

for rivers or ravine waters to join together

Orthographic Variants: 
cetia yn totlatol

for people in love to speak with one voice