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Letter C/CH: Displaying 1881 - 1900 of 5759

challi.

jade
John Bierhorst, A Nahuatl-English Dictionary and Concordance to the Cantares Mexicanos (1985), 75. He refers to the Florentine Codex, Book 11, 223, quoting: "but it comes from nowhere." This could be the "chal" in chalchihuitl. (SW)

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Chalmeca.

one of the ethnic groups (calpulli) that migrated from Aztlan

Susan Schroeder, Chimalpahin and The Kingdoms of Chalco (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1991), 144.

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Chalmecacihuatl.

a divinity, divine or sacred force; "Woman of the Chalmeca (inhabitants of Chalman, today called Chalma)" -- possibly a "sister" of the merchant divine force called Yacateuctli; one of five religious figures impersonated by slaves offered by merchants as sacrificial victims
Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan, et al. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 112.

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chalolo.

uninhabited snail shell.
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chamactic.

tʃɑmɑktik

something big or enlarged or something full like thick wool (see Molina)

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chamahua.

Orthographic Variants: 
chamaua

for the child to grow; for something to grow or get fat; or, for corn or cocoa to come in season (see Molina)

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chamahua.

tʃɑmɑːwɑ
Orthographic Variants: 
chamāhua

to brag, to be arrogant; to enhance someone’s reputation, to flatter someone (see Karttunen)

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chamahuac ichcatl.

Orthographic Variants: 
chamauac ichcatl

a sheep with thick wool (see Molina)

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chamahuac.

tʃɑmɑːwɑk
Orthographic Variants: 
chamāhuac, chamauac, chamaoac

thick, dense (see Molina and Karttunen)

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chamahuacatilmahua.

Orthographic Variants: 
chamauacatilmaua, chamauacatilmahua

a person dressed in coarse cloth (see Molina)

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chamānāltiā.

to plant a twig or flower and make it sprout.
# una persona agarra una rama de una flor y lo siembra otro lado. “Perla le gusta mucho xiloxochitl ahora lo siembra en esa oya”.
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chamāncā.

s.t.’s sprout.
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chamāni.

to sprout.
A. Hierva empieza a crecer. “ El Zacate luego empiza o crecer porque ha llovido mucho” B. Retoniar
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chamarra.

jacket
(a loanword from Spanish)

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chamatl.

tʃɑmɑtɬ

one who boasts or vainly praises him or herself

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chamil.

a milpa (agricultural parcel, often for growing maize) planted in March (see attestations)

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chamolehuatl.

tʃɑmoleːwɑtɬ

red parrot [feather] tunic

Justyna Olko, Turquoise Diadems and Staffs of Office: Elite Costume and Insignia of Power in Aztec and Early Colonial Mexico (Warsaw: Polish Society for Latin American Studies and Centre for Studies on the Classical Tradition, University of Warsaw, 2005), 57.

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chamolin.

1. a scarlet feather. 2. a type of scarlet parrot (Alfax 20110331)
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chamolli.

Orthographic Variants: 
chamoli, chamolin

scarlet parrot feather(s) (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 9 -- The Merchants, No. 14, Part 10, 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, 1959), 1.

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chamolo.

stick or wooden spoon for stirring corn gruel.
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