five special calendar days, the extra five in the 360-day calendar
James Lockhart, We People Here: Nahuatl Accounts of the Conquest of Mexico, Repertorium Columbianum v. 1 (Los Angeles: UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 1993), 174.
something without a clear outcome or benefit, something in vain (see Karttunen)
to mistreat someone for no good reason (see Karttunen and Molina)
to begin to have some feeling of apprehension for no good reason (see Karttunen)
to spoil, get stale, or be ruined (see Karttunen and Molina)
to spend the whole day uselessly (see Molina)
to waste, spoil or damage something, to kill someone (see Karttunen and Molina)
to destroy the patrimony or the estate (see Molina)
a stutterer (see Karttunen)
in vain, futilely, profitlessly, uselessly, for nothing (see Molina, Carochi/Lockhart, Karttunen, and Bierhorst)
embodiment; this seems to be a calque for the Spanish, encarnación (incarnation) of Jesus Christ
to dig into or scratch the ears (see Molina)
the act of putting one's ear forward when trying to hear, or to try to capture what is being said (see Molina)
an illness of the ears or the hearing (see Molina)
the cutting of the ear [lobes] (a ceremony)
Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 73, 74.
piercing the ear [lobes]
Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 80.