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Letter N: Displaying 721 - 740 of 2379
nekoktɬɑhtoːlistikɑ
nekoktɬɑhtoːlistɬi
nekototstɬɑːlilistɬi
Orthographic Variants: 
necuzcuitl, necuizquitl

toasted maize mixed in honey

Digital Florentine Codex, Book 1, folio 12 verso. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/book/1/folio/12v. The variations in spelling are found here.

nekpɑtʃoɑː
Orthographic Variants: 
necpachoā

to rise above something, to exalt oneself; to place something on top, to raise something on high (see Karttunen)

nektiɑː

to desire something for oneself, to covet (see Molina and Karttunen); also, to make others want something or covet something

nekwɑːɑːteːkilistɬi
Orthographic Variants: 
necuāātēquiliztli, nequatequiliztli, necuatequiliztli

baptism (see Karttunen); Molina does not use the double "a" in this term (see the link below to the other spelling)

Orthographic Variants: 
nequaceualhuiloni

a hat (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
nequai
Orthographic Variants: 
nequaini
Orthographic Variants: 
nequalancaitztinemiliztli

enmity between those who are angry with one another (see Molina)

nekwɑltik

the mesh of a net (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
nequaltoquiliztli

hypocrisy or the pretense of goodness (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
Necuametl, nequametl

a small agave, full of thorns, and blue; its roots have a medicinal value
Digital Florentine Codex, https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/book/10/folio/123r and https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/book/11/folio/201r

a type of tree like a palm (and see Molina)
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), 227.

Necuametl = a name for Chichimec country
Hubert Howe Bancroft, The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft (1883), 219.

Orthographic Variants: 
nequametla

a place with a lot of necuametl agave plants or palm trees (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
nequammomotlaliztli