E | Nahuatl Dictionary

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ezcocotli.

eskokohtɬi

a blood vessel; or, a vein

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ezcuahuitl.

eskwɑwitɬ

medicinal plant, the bark of which produces a red dye (Jatropha spatulata) (see Karttunen)

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ezcuicuiltic.

eskwikwiltik

streaked with fat and lean (see Molina)

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Ezhuahuacatl.

Orthographic Variants:

Ezguaguacatl, Ezcuacuacatl, iezoaoacatl, Ezuauacatl

a title, "Raining Blood" or "Shedder of Blood," an executioner; an advisor to the supreme leader of the Aztecs; an officer of the court, appearing in the Codex Mendoza (lamina 66, figure 10) and mentioned in Sahagún (Book 2, 106; see also Book 8)

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ezhuia.

eswiɑː

Orthographic Variants:

ezuia

to become bloody, to bleed; or, to make something bleed (see Molina)

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ezhuiā.

1. to smear blood on s.o. 2. for a healer to sprinkle blood on paper cuttings of deities.

# niqu. Una persona, un animal domestico y un animal silvestre lo embarre a otro de sangre en su cuerpo. “Edgar me embarró de sangre con su mano cuando se cortó”.

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ezhuitum.

Orthographic Variants:

ezuitum

for a woman to have her monthly period arrive (see Molina)

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Ezmalli.

a bloody captive; also, 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), 75, 149.

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ezmeya.

esmeːyɑ

Orthographic Variants:

ezmēya

to spurt blood (see Karttunen)

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ezmoloni.

esmoloːni

for one's blood to flow, to bleed (see Molina)

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ezmoloniliztli.

esmoloːnilistɬi

a bloody rain, or a bloody downpour (see Molina)

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ezmomoloca.

for blood to spurt and bubble out of a wound.

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ezmoro.

blood sausage.

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ezneloa.

esneloɑ

to become bloody, to get someone else bloody, or to make something bloody (see Molina)

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ezo.

Orthographic Variants:

eezo

bloody

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ezoa.

to get bloody (see Molina)

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ezotia.

Orthographic Variants:

eezotia

to make something bloody (see Molina)

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ezpahtli.

an ingredient used in a medicine for those who are spitting up blood

Martín de la Cruz, Libellus de medicinalibus indorum herbis; manuscrito azteca de 1552; segun traducción latina de Juan Badiano; versión española con estudios comentarios por diversos autores (Mexico: Fondo de Cultural Económica; Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, 1991), 33 [20r.].

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ezpatli.

espɑhtɬy

Orthographic Variants:

ezpahtly, ezpatly, ezpahtli

medicinal plant, the bark of which produces a red dye (Jatropha spatulata) (see Karttunen)

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ezpetlatl.

espetɬɑtɬ

a mat that has been prepared or painted red (see Molina)

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