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Letter N: Displaying 1 - 20 of 2379

-nacayocapo.

-nɑkɑyohkɑːpoh
Orthographic Variants: 
-nacayohcāpoh

sharing flesh and blood with another, a human being like oneself (a necessarily possessed form; see Karttunen)

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-nacazcoyoc.

-nɑkɑskoyok

one's hearing (see Karttunen), a necessarily possessed form

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-nacaztlan.

-nɑkɑstɬɑn

next to, beside, near, a suffix (or postposition) often found in place names (see Karttunen)

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-nahuac.

-nɑːwɑk

next to, on the side of, near; close to; with, in company of

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-nalca.

further away from, on the other side of

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-namacac.

a seller (of the thing named in the preceding morpheme) (see attestations)

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-namacaqui.

Orthographic Variants: 
-namacaque

seller; one of the trade group designations
Source: James Lockhart, The Nahuas after the Conquest: A Social and Cultural History of the Indians of Central Mexico, Sixteenth through Eighteenth Centuries (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1992), 189.

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-namacoyan.

the place where "X" is sold (X being the noun that precedes this ending (see attestations)

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-ne-.

a reflexive indefinite prefix; impersonal of "mo" in the reflexive; refers to a general thing or person, people); can mean something like, "to each other"

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-necauhca.

-nekɑːwkɑː
Orthographic Variants: 
-necāuhcā

a relic, the remainder of someone or something (a necessarily possessed form; see Karttunen)

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-necehuiayan.

-neseːwiɑːyɑːn
Orthographic Variants: 
-necēhuiāyān

one's resting place (a necessarily possessed form; see Karttunen)

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-nech-.

me, first person singular object, prefix of verbs

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), 226.

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-necuiloque.

dealer; one of the trade group designations

Source: James Lockhart, The Nahuas after the Conquest: A Social and Cultural History of the Indians of Central Mexico, Sixteenth through Eighteenth Centuries (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1992), 189.

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-necuitlahuiloca.

-nekwitɬɑwiːlokɑː
Orthographic Variants: 
-necuitlahuīlocā

the care with which one is looked after (a necessarily possessed form; see Karttunen)

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-neellelquixtiaya.

-neeːllelkiːʃtiɑːyɑ
Orthographic Variants: 
-neēllelquīxtiāya

that with which one entertains oneself (a necessarily possessed form; see Karttunen)

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-nehuian.

personally

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-nehuiyan.

-nehwiyɑːn
Orthographic Variants: 
-nehhuiyān

oneself, one's own, personally (a necessarily possessed form; see Karttunen)

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-neltic.

neltik

something dirty (see Karttunen)

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-neltococa.

-neltokokɑː
Orthographic Variants: 
-neltococā

the faith others have in one (a necessarily possessed form; see Karttunen)

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-nemi.

one who lives this way (reflecting on the morpheme at the start of the word) (see attestations)

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