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Letter E: Displaying 1 - 20 of 554

-e.

vocative: to call attention, only men use this form

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-e.

-eh
Orthographic Variants: 
-eh

possessor suffix that follows a consonant, i. e., the person who has that thing

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-eca.

people of that place

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-ecatl.

a person with an affiliation with a place (e.g. Chimalpanecatl, someone from Chimalpan)

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-ectic.

adjectival ending

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-ehui.

-eːwi
Orthographic Variants: 
-ēhui

verbal compounding element to turn out in a particular manner, to become (see Karttunen)

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-ehuiltitica.

-eːwiltihtikɑh
Orthographic Variants: 
-ēhuiltihticah

someone seated (see Karttunen)

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-ellelaci.

-eːllelɑhsi
Orthographic Variants: 
-ēllelahci

to suffer greatly (this form takes a possessive rather than a subject prefix; see Karttunen)

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-excanixti.

-eːʃkɑːniʃti
Orthographic Variants: 
-ēxcānixti

in all three parts of something (a necessarily possessed form; see Karttunen)

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-ezzocapotzin.

-essohkɑːpohtsin
Orthographic Variants: 
-ezzohcāpohtzin

one’s blood fellow (a necessarily possessed form; see Karttunen)

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e.

short for yehuatl; that one

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e.

letter short “e”.
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ē.

letter long “e”.
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ecacahuatl.

ekɑkɑwɑtɬ

bean pod (see Karttunen)

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ecacaztli.

a ladder

Thelma D. Sullivan, "Nahuatl Proverbs, Conundrums, and Metaphors, Collected by Sahagún," Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl 4 (1963), 135–136.

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ecacehuaztli.

ehkɑseːwɑːstɬi
Orthographic Variants: 
ecaceuaztli

fan, or an instrument with which to chase away flies (see Molina); also, a fan used in dancing (and symbolic for war) (see Bierhorst); images of these fans seem to show that they are made of feathers

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ecachichinqui.

Orthographic Variants: 
ehecachichinqui

Merlin, a bird (see Hunn, attestations)

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Ecachoca.

Orthographic Variants: 
ehecachoca?

a personal name (attested as male)

(Tepetlaoztoc, mid-sixteenth century)
Barbara J. Williams and H. R. Harvey, The Códice de Santa María Asunción: Facsimile and Commentary: Households and Lands in Sixteenth-Century Tepetlaoztoc (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1997), 76.

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ecacoatl.

ehkɑkoːɑːtɬ
Orthographic Variants: 
Yecacovatl, ehcacoatl

a hurricane whirlwind (see Molina); also, the name of a person and the name of a snake (see below)

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ecacoayo mixtli.

a tempestuous cloud and hurricane whirlwind (see Molina)

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