N

Letter N: Displaying 1201 - 1220 of 2371
neːntʃiːwɑ
Orthographic Variants: 
nenchiua

to do something in vain or without profit (see Molina and Karttunen)

useless, idle, or lazy woman, born during the five unlucky/useless days at the end of the year that were associated with darkness and feminine spiritual forces. This is explained in the Florentine Codex in Book 2, folio 12 recto (see: https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/book/2/folio/12r). And see the attestations, below.

neːnkwepɑ
Orthographic Variants: 
nēncuepa

to go somewhere for naught; to restore, return something to no avail (see Karttunen)

neːnkwi

to take something for no good reason (see Molina)

1. for a person or an animal to approach another, after all. 2. for people or animals to gather together, after all.
nenesiwi
Orthographic Variants: 
neneciui

to walk panting (see Molina)

neːnekok

on, to, or from both sides, both sides of several things (see Molina and Kartunnen)

neːnektiɑ

to flirt, or to wish to be sought-after (see Molina)

nehnektiɑː
Orthographic Variants: 
nehnectiā

to volunteer oneself, to meddle, to aspire to do something one is not equipped for (see Karttunen)

newktɬi
Orthographic Variants: 
nenecuhtliuctli, nenecuhtli octli, neuctli, necutli, nectli, neoctli

honey, also the drinkable saps and juices of various kinds of plants

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.

(often spelled neuctli; the necuh- neuc- variations are reminiscent of the teuctli/tecuhtli variations)

nenekwilwɑːstɬi

a seal or a stamp (see Molina)

nehnekwilli
Orthographic Variants: 
nehnecuilli

something displaced, dislocated, twisted (see Karttunen)

nenekwilli

a type of tree (Inga jinicuil) (see Karttunen)

nehnekwiloɑː
Orthographic Variants: 
nehnecuiloā

to totter along (see Karttunen) here and there, twisting and turning (see Molina)

nenekwilohtiw

to go along waddling (see Molina)