C / CH

Letter C/CH: Displaying 1961 - 1980 of 5780
small portion of something.

oily

(central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 10 -- The People, No. 14, Part 11, 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), 97.

Orthographic Variants: 
chiaua, chiaoa

for something to become stained (reflexive); to stain something (transitive)

Orthographic Variants: 
chiauac

something oily, stained

Orthographic Variants: 
chiauacatlaatililli

melted lard (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
chiauacayo

something oily, stained

Orthographic Variants: 
chiauacayotl

fat, grease (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
chiauitl

a snake; or an aphid that eats vines

Orthographic Variants: 
chiauiz aquixtia

to squeeze out the bloody liquid (?)

Orthographic Variants: 
chiauizapatzca

to wring out watery blood (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
chiauizatl

watery blood (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
chiauizo, chiauiço

greasy (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
chiahuiçotl, chiauizotl, chiauiçotl

fat, grease; greasiness

Orthographic Variants: 
chiauiztli

a waxy, greasy bodily fluid, possibly semen; also, seems to be the root of the Hispanized term chahuistle, which may refer to fungus and insect infestations (Gene C. Wilkens, Good Farmers, 1990, p. 48, note 7)

Orthographic Variants: 
Chiyalloc

a person's name (gender not specified)

something or someone worth waiting for (see Molina)

to expect or wait for another person with regard to food or something else (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
chiamachiua

to make oil from chia seeds (see Molina)

one who makes oil from chia seeds (see Molina)