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Letter H: Displaying 761 - 780 of 1108

huexolotl.

wehʃoːloːtɬ
Orthographic Variants: 
vesulotl, uexolotl, huehxolotl

turkey (entered Spanish as guajolote); a tom turkey, a cockerel

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huexopazolli.

Orthographic Variants: 
uexopazolli
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huexotl.

weʃoːtɬ
Orthographic Variants: 
uexotl

a white willow tree (see Molina and Karttunen); also, attested as a person's name (attested male)

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huexotla.

weʃoːtɬɑh
Orthographic Variants: 
huexōtlah, uexotla, vexutla

a willow grove, and a common place name (see Karttunen); for instance, a well known central Mexican altepetl is now called Huejutla

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Huexotla.

Orthographic Variants: 
Uexutla, Uexotla, Huejutla

an important Acolhua-Chichimec community in central Mexico; spelled Huejutla today (Huejutla de Reyes), it is located in the state of Hidalgo

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huexotlacatl.

weʃoːtɬɑhkɑtɬ
Orthographic Variants: 
huexōtlahcatl

someone from Huejutla (see Karttunen)

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huexotlacotl.

Orthographic Variants: 
uexotlacotl

wicker or willow switch(es) (see Molina)

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Huexotzincatl.

weʃoːtsinkɑtɬ

inhabitant of Huexōtzīnco, Huejotzingo (plural: Huexotzinca, the people of Huejotzingo; an ethnicity)
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), 218.

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Huexotzinco.

Orthographic Variants: 
Huejotzinco, Huejotzingo, vexotzinco

an important altepetl in what is now the state of Puebla, Mexico
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), 218.

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huēxtic.

grown person or animal.
# Una persona, un animal silvestre y un animal domestico que crece muy rápido y luego luego se hace alto. “Cuando me vino a visitar mi ahijado, estaba muy chiquito, y ahora está muy grande”.
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hueya.

wejɑ

to grow (see Molina), to increase

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Hueyac Xocotitlan.

Orthographic Variants: 
veyacxocotitlā, ueyacxocotitlan

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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hueyac.

weːjɑk
Orthographic Variants: 
huiyac, hueac, huiac, veyac, hueyac, uiac, ueyac, viac, viyac, veiac beyac

long, a measure of length; when a parcel of land is a rectangle with two dimensions, the "hueyac" (or "huiyac") is the longer of the two measurements

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hueyacapul.

Orthographic Variants: 
ueyacapul

something very long (see Molina)

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hueyacatontli.

Orthographic Variants: 
ueyacatontli

something long (see Molina)

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hueyacayutl.

Orthographic Variants: 
ueyacayutl

a type of length (see Molina)

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hueyaquilia.

Orthographic Variants: 
ueyaquilia

to lengthen something (see Molina)

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hueyaquiliztli.

Orthographic Variants: 
ueyaquiliztli

the act of lengthening or extending something (see Molina)

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hueyatl.

weːiɑːtɬ
Orthographic Variants: 
ueiatl, huey atl, hueiatl

the sea, ocean (see Molina), a river (see Karttunen)

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hueyatlan.

place of increase, from hueya, to grow greater

Daniel Garrison Brinton, Ancient Nahuatl Poetry: Containing the Nahuatl Text of XXVII Ancient Mexican Poems (1887), 154.

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