E | Nahuatl Dictionary

James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 217.

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ehecapolihui in mixtli.

Orthographic Variants:

eecapoliui ymmixtli, eecapolihui ymmixtli

for the clouds to diminish the wind (?) (see Molina)

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ehecaquetzalcoatl.

ehketsɑlkoːɑːtɬ

Orthographic Variants:

ehquetzalcōātl, ehquetzalcoatl, eecaquetzalcoatl, ecaquetzalcoatl

whirlwind, dust devil (see Karttunen)

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ehecatica.

Orthographic Variants:

eecatica

with air; or, breezy (see Molina)

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one of the boundaries of the Nonohualca of Tollan (Tula)
Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca, 4v. Taken from the image of the folio published in Dana Leibsohn, Script and Glyph: Pre-Hispanic History, Colonial Bookmaking, and the Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca (Washington D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks, 2009), 65. Paleography and regularization of this toponym by Stephanie Wood.

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ehecatl niquittitia.

Orthographic Variants:

eecatl niquittitia

to aerate something by putting it in the wind (see Molina)

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ehecatl topan moquetza.

Orthographic Variants:

eecatltopammoquetza

for a storm to occur at sea; literally, for a storm to come upon us (see Molina)

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ehecatl.

eheːkɑtɬ

Orthographic Variants:

eecatl, yeyecatli, yehecatl, iehecatl, heecac, hecatl

wind, breeze, movement of the air; when capitalized, the name of a deity or divine force of wind and linked or equated with Quetzalcoatl; and, when paired with yohualli, refers to the deity of the near and far; some will say it is bad spirit, a ghost; also, it is a calendrical marker and therefore a name for people born on a day with this marker (see Sahagún)

See: James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 217.

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