N | Nahuatl Dictionary

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nachcapanquetza.

to show off or to hold oneself in high regard (see Molina)

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nacochoa.

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nacuchoa

to sneeze (see Molina)

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ear plugs (more prestigious) or ear flares (less prestigious)
Justyna Olko, Turquoise Diadems and Staffs of Office: Elite Costume and Insignia of Power in Aztec and Early Colonial Mexico (Warsaw: Polish Society for Latin American Studies and Centre for Studies on the Classical Tradition, University of Warsaw, 2005), 162.

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nactia.

nɑktiɑ

to stay or detain oneself somewhere; to take up residence somewhere; or, to detain someone else (see Molina)

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nacuah.

word introducing a short phrase used to end a conversation when the speaker needs to leave and do s.t. else.

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Nacxitl.

a person's name (attested as male); also, another name for Quetzalcoatl, according to Seler; a walker; a traveler (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 1 -- The Gods; No. 14, Part 2, 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, 1950), 19.

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nahaya.

1. (to do s.t.) myself. 2. (to do s.t.) by myself.

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nahhuā.

I (first person independent personal pronoun).

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nahnahuā.

1. to hug s.o. 2. to hold s.t. against one’s chest.

A. Persona acerca a otra con su mano porque la quiere o le gusta. “Ofelia abraza a Gabriel porque lo quiere mucho.” 2. Persona que levanta una cosa y lo pone en su pecho. “Manuel a abrazado el palo para que no se tire.” B. Abrazar.

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nahnahuāltiā.

to have s.o. hold a baby, a small animal or a thing in their arms.

# una persona hace que otra abrase una cosa lo que es delicado. “mi mamá me dijo que cierre los ojos después me dio abrazar un pollito para mi”.

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nahnāhui.

four of each.

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nahnāhuiliā.

to hold s.o.’s baby or property in one’s arms.

# una persona le da agarrar con las dos manos al hijo de otro o una cosa. “yo di abrazar la olla a mi hermanoporque ya se estaba cayendo”.

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nahnahuitia.

nɑhnɑwitiɑː

Orthographic Variants:

nahnahuitiā

to take leave (see Karttunen)

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nahnānquiliā.

for a child to answer s.o. back.

# una persona no respeta a alguien que es mayor cuando le manda o le ordena que haga una cosa. “ese niño nada mas le contesta a su mamá porque escucho mucho a sus hermanos”.

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nahnāuhyōpān.

every four days.

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nahua.

nɑːwɑ

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nāhua

audible, intelligible, clear; within earshot, near; an incantation, language (see Karttunen)

to have in arms; to baptize (Gran Diccionario Náhuatl, citing 2002 Meyacapan)

"to speak," a sign involving speech scrolls, a rebus employed to elicit -nahuac, meaning "beside, together with" in place names [Alfonso Lacadena, "Regional Scribal Traditions: Methodological Implications for the Decipherment of Nahuatl Writing," The PARI Journal 8:4 (Spring 2008), 2.]

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