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Letter P: Displaying 701 - 720 of 1591

pepeyahua.

pepejɑːwɑ
Orthographic Variants: 
pepeyaua
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pepeyahuac.

pepejɑːwɑk
Orthographic Variants: 
pepeyauac
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pepeyahuatiuh.

Orthographic Variants: 
pepeyauatiuh
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pepeyo cuahuitl.

Orthographic Variants: 
pepeyo quauitl, pepeyo quahuitl

a poplar tree (see Molina)

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pepeyoca.

pepejokɑ
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pepeyocaticac.

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pepeyoctli.

pepejoktɬi
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pepeyotza.

pepeyotsɑ

to give someone the shivers, to make someone's skin crawl (See Karttunen)

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pepezoā.

to unclothe s.o.
# nic/nimo. Una persona le quita la ropa a otro y lo deja desnudo. “Ese hombre se ha desnudado en la royo porque se está bañando con sus amigos”.
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pepezonehua.

Orthographic Variants: 
pepezoneua
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pepezonehualiztli.

Orthographic Variants: 
pepezoneualiztli
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pepeztic.

1. naked. 2. any hairless animal.
# 1. Una persona que no se ha puesto su ropa. “Eduardo siempre anda desnudo porque hace mucho calor”. 2. Un animal silvestre y un animal domestico que no tiene pelos. “El puerco de Ofelia está muy desnudo y cuando hace frío no aguanta”.
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pera.

pear (the fruit); pear tree; possible combined with -titlan to form a placename?

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peral cuahuitl.

Orthographic Variants: 
peral quauitl, peral quahuitl.

a pear tree
(partly a loanword from Spanish, peral, pear tree; see Molina)

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peral ytlaaquillo.

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Peralta.

Orthographic Variants: 
Perarta

a Spanish last name, e.g. don Gastón Peralta, viceroy

Here in This Year: Seventeenth-Century Nahuatl Annals of the Tlaxcala-Puebla Valley, ed. and transl. Camilla Townsend, with an essay by James Lockhart (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010), 166–167.

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perdón.

pardon
(a loanword from Spanish)

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pero.

but
(a loanword from Spanish)

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perro.

Orthographic Variants: 
pero

a dog

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Persia.

Persia, the place name; now Iran (central Mexico, late sixteenth century; originally from Sahagún in 1574, a document that Chimalpahin copied)
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, 146–147.

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