H | Nahuatl Dictionary

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huitztli omitl tetech nicpachoa.

Orthographic Variants:

uitztli omitl tetech nicpachoa

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huitztli, tzitzicaztli tetech nicpachoa.

Orthographic Variants:

uitztli, tzitzicaztli tetech nicpachoa

to arrest and punish someone (metaphor) (see Molina)

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huitztli.

witstɬi

Orthographic Variants:

vitztli, uitztli, uiztli, viztli, huiztli

a thorn; a spine (singular or plural)
Louise M. Burkhart, Holy Wednesday: A Nahua Drama from Early Colonial Mexico (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996), 224.

often associated with self-sacrifice and bloodletting
(SW)

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a plant with medicinal value; the bark is mashed and drunk with water to "evacuate all the humors by the inferior route" (Valley of Mexico, 1570–1587)
The Mexican Treasury: The Writings of Dr. Francisco Hernández, ed. Simon Varey, transl. Rafael Chabrán, Cynthia L. Chamberlin, and Simon Varey (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000), 116.

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huitztzitziqui.

wiːtstsiːtsikih

Orthographic Variants:

huītztzītziquih

hummingbird (see Karttunen)

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huitztzō.

s.t.’s thorns.

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huitztzoh.

stick, tree or fish covered with spines.

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huitzyecoltia.

Orthographic Variants:

uitzyecoltia

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huixachin.

wiʃɑtʃin

Orthographic Variants:

uixachin

a spiny tree, or a hawthorn (see Molina); Gordon Whittaker says the term blends "huitz-" (thorns) with "achin" (a lot of, many), resulting in very thorny
Discovering Aztec Hieroglyphs, 2021, 99)

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huixalihui.

Orthographic Variants:

uixaliui

to wiggle (see Sahagún)

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huixaliuhqui.

wiggling

(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), 109.

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huixaltic.

Orthographic Variants:

uixaltic

wiggling

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Huixtocihuatl.

Orthographic Variants:

vixtociuatl

a diviniity or a sacred or divine force, associated with salt and with rituals relating to water, fertility; "Woman of the Huixtotin" (connected with the Popoloca speakers; the term Huixtotin was also associated with sacrificial victims who wore headpieces with eagle claws) Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan, et al. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 106.

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huiya.

he/she/they went (from yauh, to go)

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huiyoni.

wiyoːni

Orthographic Variants:

huiyōni

for something to move (see Karttunen)

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huiyōni.

for s.t. to hang.

A. Se cuelga algo. “En la casa de mi papá tiene muchos años que esta colgado un listón en la puerta”. B. Colgar algo en cualquier lugar.

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huiyonia.

wiyoːniɑː

Orthographic Variants:

huiyōniā

to move something (see Karttunen)

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huiyōniā.

1. to hang s.t. 2. to hang oneself.

A. 1. Una persona cuelga algo. “Paty cuelga la flor arriba porque va a ver una fiesta”. 2. Una persona se cuelga con una cuerda y se mata. “En mi casa se colgo un señor en un poste por tenia muchos problemas”. B. 1. Una persona cuelga algo. 2. una persona se cuelga.

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huiyōniliā.

1. to hang s.t. on a person’s shoulder or an animal. 2. to hang s.t. belonging to s.o. on s.t.

# nic. Una persona se lo cuelga una cosa a alguien. “Mi mamá siempre se le olvida colgarlo la canasta para guardar la comida; por eso lo cuelgo”.

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