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Letter O: Displaying 381 - 400 of 946
oːwɑ

exclamation. ah, oh, etc.

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), 228.

owɑɑːtɬ
Orthographic Variants: 
ohuaātl

juice pressed from sugar cane (see Karttunen)

sugarcane juice.
owɑkɑmɑk

canebreak (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
ouaquauitl, ohuaquahuitl
Orthographic Variants: 
oualmoman metztli

a new moon (see Molina)

owɑmelɑktɬi

long canes (see Karttunen)

owɑmiːlli
Orthographic Variants: 
ohuamīlli

cane field (see Karttunen)

cultivated canefield.
Orthographic Variants: 
ouanecutli
owɑnewktɬi

cane syrup, corn syrup (see Karttunen)

owɑpɑtʃtɬi
Orthographic Variants: 
ohuapachtli

remains of sugar cane after pressing (see Karttunen)

owɑːtetsokoːtɬ
Orthographic Variants: 
ouatetzocotl
owɑtɬ
Orthographic Variants: 
ouatl

green maize stalk (see Molina), sugar cane (see Karttunen)

owɑtɬɑh
Orthographic Variants: 
ohuatlah

canebreak (see Karttunen), a stand of cane or reeds (SW)

Orthographic Variants: 
ooaton

Montezuma Quail, female; a bird (see Hunn, attestations)

owɑːʃokojolin

an herb used for curing glaucoma

Martín de la Cruz, Libellus de medicinalibus indorum herbis; manuscrito azteca de 1552; segun traducción latina de Juan Badiano; versión española con estudios comentarios por diversos autores (Mexico: Fondo de Cultural Económica; Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, 1991), 23 [12r.].

a vocable expressed in songs, connected to anguish and war cries (ca. 1582, central Mexico)
John Bierhorst, Ballads of the Lords of New Spain (Austin: University of Texas Press, UTDigital, 2009), 42; http://utdi.org/book/index.php?page=songs.php