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Letter C/CH: Displaying 1901 - 1920 of 5795

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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Chamotzin.

one of the names given to a little baby girl whose mother had died in childbirth (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 6 -- Rhetoric and Moral Philosophy, No. 14, Part 7, 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, 1961), chapter 29.

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champochtli.

Orthographic Variants: 
champuchtli

an earring (see Molina)

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chanca.

is making a home, lives; plural: chancate, they are making a home, they live (see attestations)

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chancacah.

brown suger.
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chanchihua.

Orthographic Variants: 
chanchibah

to make a home; to live

William Mills, "Nahuatl Folk Tales from Zongolica, Veracruz," Tlalocan 15 (2008), 17–79, example from p. 21. See below.

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chancuemitl.

land associated with the household and family (used in Ocotelulco, for example)

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chane.

tʃɑːneh
Orthographic Variants: 
chāneh

owner of a home; citizen; householder; resident; inhabitant (can be an animal that occupies a certain habitat) (plural: chaneque)

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chāneh.

head of a household.
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channonotza.

tʃɑːnnoːnoːtsɑ

to come to an agreement, speking of those who have an argument or are involved in a lawsuit (see Molina)

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