P

Letter P: Displaying 961 - 980 of 1590
piltoːntɬi

a child, boy or girl (see Molina); also, a baby boy (see Sahagún)

Orthographic Variants: 
piltzintecouhxochitl chiyahua, piltzintecouhxochitl chiyaua

a bush used in a mixture for treating podagra (a foot ailment)

Martín de la Cruz, Libellus de medicinalibus indorum herbis; manuscrito azteca de 1552; segun traducción latina de Juan Badiano; versión española con estudios comentarios por diversos autores (Mexico: Fondo de Cultural Económica; Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, 1991), 51 [35v.].

animal or object with a very dark color, almost black.

a Spanish surname; sometimes taken by indigenous nobles; don Hernando Pimentel is an example (see Sahagún, in attestations); the ruler don Antonio Pimentel of Tetzcoco is another example (see the Codex Chimalpahin)

piːnɑkɑtɬ

a large non-flying, reddish beetle (see Karttunen and Molina); a stink beetle or acrobat beetle; see the image of the beetle in the DFC
Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter and Alicia Maria Houtrouw, "Book 11: Earthly Things", fol. 98v, Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/11/folio/98v/images/f7339077-6... Accessed 4 November 2025.

piːnɑːwɑ
Orthographic Variants: 
pinaua

to be ashamed
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.

to be ashamed.
# una persona tiene miedo cuando habla con otra, o cuando pas o ve a alguien. “Floricelda tiene mucha vergüenza caundo va a visitar a su primas en su casa porque nunca se han visto”.
piːnɑːwɑk
Orthographic Variants: 
pīnāhuac

embarrassed, bashful (See Karttunen)

piːnɑːwɑkɑː
Orthographic Variants: 
pinauaca
Orthographic Variants: 
pinauacanemi
Orthographic Variants: 
pinauacanemiliztli
piːnɑːwɑlistɬi
Orthographic Variants: 
pinaualiztli
piːnɑːwɑni
Orthographic Variants: 
pinauani
Orthographic Variants: 
pinauatinemi
piːnɑːwiɑː
Orthographic Variants: 
pinauia

to ridicule or embarrass someone (see Molina and Karttunen)

to be very shy with respect to s.o.
# una persona tiene vergüenza cuando ve a alguien. “yo tengo vergüenza a mi novio porque acaba de llegar y tiene muchos dias queno lo veia”.
Orthographic Variants: 
pinauilizcopa