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Letter P: Displaying 761 - 780 of 1590

petlatotlin.

a rush suitable to make mats

Daniel Garrison Brinton, Ancient Nahuatl Poetry: Containing the Nahuatl Text of XXVII Ancient Mexican Poems (1877), 161.

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petlauhtinemi.

to go about naked; to live naked, nude (see attestations)

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petlauhtinemiliztli.

the act of being naked, going about naked, living naked (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, 168–169.

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petlauhtoc.

to be thrown out and discovered without any clothing on (see Molina)

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petlayō.

rind or skin of a fruit or vegetable.
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petlayoh.

dried ear of corn that is still wrapped in its husk.
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petlazolcoatl.

petɬɑsolkoːɑːtɬ
Orthographic Variants: 
petlaçolcoatl, petlaçolcohuatl

centipede (see Molina)

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petlazolli.

Orthographic Variants: 
petlaçolli

old petate, old woven mat; can also refer to a centipede, according to A. Wimmer (2004), in the Gran Diccionario Náhuatl, https://gdn.iib.unam.mx/diccionario/petlazolli/59808, although usually the centipede is petlazolcoatl

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petlazoyatl.

petɬɑsoːyɑːtɬ
Orthographic Variants: 
petlazōyātl

petate woven of palm fronds (See Karttunen)

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petoni.

petoːni

to dislocate some bone of the body, or the like; or, for wooden parts to protrude from a wall (see Molina)

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petonia.

petoːniɑ

to knock something out of its place (see Molina)

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petonqui.

petoːnki
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Petronila.

a Spanish name for a female

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petzcahui.

petskɑwi
Orthographic Variants: 
petzcaui

to slip, to slide (see Karttunen and Molina)

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petzcahuiliztli.

petskɑwilistɬi
Orthographic Variants: 
petzcauiliztli

a slipping, the act of sliding or slipping (see Molina)

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petzcaxitl.

petskɑʃitɬ

polished bowls, smooth bowls (see Molina)

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petzcoa.

petskoɑː

to slip, to slide; to slide something (see Molina and Karttunen)

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petzcoatl.

a type of snake (see the painting of the serpent in the Digital Florentine Codex, Book 11, f. 90v.)
Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter and Alicia Maria Houtrouw, "Book 11: Earthly Things", fol. 90v, Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/11/folio/90v/images/0 Accessed 3 November 2025.

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petzcohuixin.

petskoːwiːʃin
Orthographic Variants: 
petzcouixin

a long lizard with a big tail and runs a lot (see Molina), a type of venomous lizard (see Karttunen)

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petzicatl.

a type of seed (see Molina)

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