C / CH

Letter C/CH: Displaying 1861 - 1880 of 5761

one who deals in stones and gems, a lapidary (see Molina)

the older place name for Amaquemecan (Amecameca)

Miguel León-Portilla, "Un testimonio de Sahagún aprovechado por Chimalpahin," Estudios de Cultura Nahuatl 14 (1980), 95–129; see p. 119.

Orthographic Variants: 
Chalchiuhnenetzin

a personal name, attested female (see attestations)

don Miguel Chalchiuhquiyauhtzin was a child of on Diego de Alvarado Huanitzin and a noblewoman of Acatlan; he was born in Ecatepec; his mother also had another son named don Cristóbal Xochicamatzin

(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, 104–105.

a turquoise "toad," which, according to Bartolomé de Alva, was a type of "idol;" such would be brought out into the sun and wrapped in cotton as a way of honoring them
Bartolomé de Alva, A Guide to Confession Large and Small in the Mexican Language, 1634, eds. Barry D. Sell and John Frederick Schwaller, with Lu Ann Homza (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1999), 9.

Orthographic Variants: 
chalchiuhtētetl

green stone lip plug
Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 206.

a priest involved in sacrifice
Rémi Siméon, Diccionario de la lengua náhuatl o mexicana (1977), 91.

a personal Nahua name (attested male) (Cuernavaca region, ca. 1540s)
The Book of Tributes: Early Sixteenth-Century Nahuatl Censuses from Morelos, ed. and transl. S. L. Cline, (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center Publications, 1993), 172–173.

green stone(s) (see Sahagún)

tʃɑːltʃiwteːw
Orthographic Variants: 
chālchiuhtēuh

in the manner of precious green stones (see Karttunen)

first ruler of the Toltecs in Tollan (Tula), a man

Anónimo mexicano, ed. Richley H. Crapo and Bonnie Glass-Coffin (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2005), 8.

the name of a female divine force of water; the name of a Mexica ruler; and a name taken by Nahua householders in various provincial communities (see attestations)

Orthographic Variants: 
Chalchiuhtli icue, Chalchiuhtli ycue

a deity; a female divine force associated with earthly waters; literally, greenstone her skirt; considered the elder sister of the Tlaloque

Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan, et al. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 104.

the name of a deity ("Jade-Turkey" or "Precious Turkey"), part of the Tetzcatlipoca complex, representing omnipotence, feasting and revelry
"Table 3. Major Deities of the Late Pre-Hispanic Central Mexican Nahua-Speaking Communities." Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volume 6: Social Anthropology, ed Manning Nash (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1967).

Red-legged Honeycreeper, a bird (see Hunn, attestations)

daughter of Tlacateotzin, ruler of Tlatelolco, and Xiuhtomiyauhtzin; she married Chahuaquauhtzin of Chalco, said to be a "son of Toteoci teuhctli"

(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, 112–113.

tʃɑːlko

a place name, a municipality (also called Chalco Atenco in pre-Hispanic times); known today as Chalco de Díaz Covarrubias; and a large region in the southeast of the Valley of Mexico

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), 214.

tʃɑlkwitɬɑtɬ

the leaf from the plant spotted spurge (Euforbia maculata) (see Molina)

tʃɑːliɑː

introduce, inaugurate