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Letter O: Displaying 401 - 420 of 946
Orthographic Variants: 
oueix metztli

full moon (see Molina)

owih
Orthographic Variants: 
oui, ohuih

something difficult or dangerous (see Molina, Karttunen, and Lockhart)

Orthographic Variants: 
ouica icuiloa, ohuica ihcuiloa

to write in ciphers, to encode, to estimate (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
ouica tlatoa, ohuica tlahtoa

to speak of difficult and subtle things (see Molina)

owihkɑ
Orthographic Variants: 
ouica

with difficulty (see Molina)

to confuse, to endanger someone, to cause pain to someone

owihkɑːmɑti
Orthographic Variants: 
ouicamati

to know something to be difficult and dangerous (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
ouican aquia

to get involved in something difficult and dangerous (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
ouican nitequixtia

to liberate or get someone out of danger and difficulty or out of some perplexing situation (see Molina)

owihkɑːn
Orthographic Variants: 
ouican

a difficult, dangerous place to get around in; also, such a situation

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.

owihkɑːnɑkiɑ
Orthographic Variants: 
ouicanaquia

to put someone into a difficult and dangerous situation (see Molina)

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ouicayo

something that involves difficulty or danger (see Molina)

owihkɑːjoːtikɑ
Orthographic Variants: 
ouicayotica
owihkɑːyoːtɬ
Orthographic Variants: 
ouicayotl
place overgrown with weeds.
for a place to become overgrown by vegetation.
to cause problems for s.o.
A.nic. una persona, fiera y animal doméstico molestan a otro con una cosa. “Ese bebé ya tiro me da trabajo porque todavia no puede caminar”. B. mucho trabajo
to have a hard time doing s.t.
# nic. Una persona no quiere hacer un trabajo porque esta difícil. “Valeria le cuesta mucho trabajo moler porque lastima mucho el métete“.
to take a long time to do a task, at times because of its difficulty.
A. ni. una persona tarda mucho en hacer un trabajo. “Pedro tarda mucho cuando va a la milpa porque el primero quiere dejar comido”. B. tardarse mucho.