P

Letter P: Displaying 921 - 940 of 1587
pilisol

blanket, sarape (See Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
pilauana, pillauana, pilahuana

a festival involving the drunkeness of children, with some sexual initiation

Orthographic Variants: 
pilauana, pillauana, pilahuana

a festival, involving drinking and eating, to celebrate the arrival of a baby
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 6 -- Rhetoric and Moral Philosophy, No. 14, Part 7, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1961), 207.

pillɑːlli

private land of indigenous lords

S. L. Cline, Colonial Culhuacan, 1580-1600: A Social History of an Aztec Town (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1986), 236.

pilli
Orthographic Variants: 
pili, piltontli, piltzintli, pipil

a person of noble lineage; or, a child

pilloːtɬ

nobility; also, childishness

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), 230.

an agricultural field of a noble person (see attestations)

piloɑː

to hang oneself, to hang something up, to hang someone (see Karttunen); it hangs