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Letter N: Displaying 1861 - 1880 of 2371
nejoːlpololistikɑ

doubtfully or with some forgetfulness (see Molina)

nejoːlpololistɬi

the doubt held by those who cannot remember well (see Molina)

nejoːltekipɑtʃolistɬi

an affliction or trouble (distress) of the heart and regret (see Molina)

nejoːltoːneːwɑlistɬi
Orthographic Variants: 
neyoltoneualiztli

an affliction or trouble (distress) of the heart and regret (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
neçacapechtemaliztli

laying down a bed of straw (a ceremony or ritual)

Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 79.

nesɑwɑlkoyoːtɬ
Orthographic Variants: 
Neçahualcoyotzin, Neçahualcoyotl, Nezahualcoyotzin, Neçaualcoyotzin, Neçaoalcoiotzin

a ruler of Tetzcoco (Texcoco) in the fifteenth century; possibly translates as "Fasting Coyote"

Orthographic Variants: 
nezaualizmiccatlatquiua

a mourning for the deceased person (see Molina)

nesɑwɑlismikkɑːtɬɑtkitɬ
Orthographic Variants: 
nezaualizmiccatlatquitl

the mourning that is done for the deceased person (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
nezaualizpan

a time of mourning; or Lent (see Molina)

nesɑwɑlistikɑ
Orthographic Variants: 
nezaualiztica

through mourning (see Molina)

nesɑwɑlistɬi
Orthographic Variants: 
neçaualiztli, neçahualiztli

a fast; or hunger (see Karttunen and Molina)

or, abstinence (a ceremony or ritual)
Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 75.

Orthographic Variants: 
neçahualli, neçahual

a ritual fasting or vigil; might also include bloodletting
Maarten Jansen and Aurora Gabina Pérez Jiménez, Time and the Ancestors (2017), 150, 452.

nesɑwɑlpilli
Orthographic Variants: 
Neçahualpilli, Nezahualpilli, Neçahualpiltzintli, Neçaoalpilli, Neçaualpilli

a deity name; also, a personal name; the name of a ruler of Tetzcoco who took power after his father, Nezahualcoyotl passed away in 1472 (see Karttunen and attestations)

a son of Nezahualpiltzintli of Tetzcoco; he had a two-year relationship with a woman who was the offspring of Papan of Coatlan and Xicomotecatl of Tetzcoco (central Mexico, early seventeenth century)
Codex Chimalpahin: Society and Politics in Mexico Tenochtitlan, Tlatelolco, Culhuacan, and Other Nahuatl Altepetl in Central Mexico; The Nahuatl and Spanish Annals and Accounts Collected and Recorded by don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Susan Schroeder (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), vol. 2, 184–185.

like the xochiatl, this may be a medicinal plant that is born and flowers in the water, according to Clavijero 1780
A. Wimmer, 2004, in the Gran Diccionario Náhuatl, https://gdn.iib.unam.mx/diccionario/nezahualxochitl/180035. Following the link from that page to the page for the xochiatl, https://gdn.iib.unam.mx/diccionario/xochiatl/76531. Translation to English here by Stephanie Wood.

nesɑːwiliɑ
Orthographic Variants: 
nezauilia

to mourn the dead (see Molina)

the act of being detained, or the delay created by someone who stops somewhere on the way (see Molina)

something that is usually stopped from others (see Molina)

nesɑsɑkɑlistɬi

the act of moving jewels (or probably goods, in general) from one house to another when someone moves (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
nezcaycuiloua

to appear as painted or written

(sixteenth century, Quauhtinchan)
Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca, eds. Paul Kirchhoff, Lina Odena Güemes, y Luis Reyes García (México: CISINAH, INAH-SEP, 1976), 180.