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Letter P: Displaying 921 - 940 of 1591

pilini.

it has long hairs (see Sahagún)

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pilīni.

for a tree, plant or flower to wither.

# Un palo, hiervas y lodo lo que han sembrado se secó porque hace mucho sol y no le echan agua. “La flor de Rosa lo que sembró hace ocho días se secó porque no le echó agua todo los días”.

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pilīniā.

for the sun or herbicide to cause a plant to wither.

# qui. El sol y el medicamento lo empiezan a secar la hierba. “Ese medicamento lo secó mi flor porque muy fuerte vino su olor”.

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pilizol.

pilisol

blanket, sarape (See Karttunen)

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pillahuana.

Orthographic Variants:

pilauana, pillauana, pilahuana

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

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pillahuano.

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.

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pillalia.

pillɑːliɑ

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pillalli.

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.

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pili, piltontli, piltzintli, pipil

a person of noble lineage; or, a child

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pillotl.

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.

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