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Letter P: Displaying 1181 - 1200 of 1591
piʃkiɑ

to harvest something for someone; especially, to harvest maize for someone (a transitive form of pixca) (see attestations)

to harvest for s.o.
# una persona agarra maíz en la milpa de otro en su rama. “Marío le cosecha a su padrino porque el ya esta muy viejito y ya no puede hacer ese trabajo”.
piʃkipɑn
Orthographic Variants: 
pixquizpan

the time of harvest; or to collect or reap grains (see Molina)

piʃkitɬ

the harvest; that which is gathered and reaped from the parcel or plantings (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
pixquipan

the time of harvest; or to collect or reap grains (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
pisquiztli

the crop; the harvest

piyɑ

same as pia, to have something

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.

1. nic. to have s.t. 2. to hold a party or a dance.
A. 1. nic. Una persona, un animal silvestre y domesticado cuida una cosa que es dueño de alguien que está cerca de él. “Carlos va a tener una felicidad mañana”. 2. nic. Una persona, un aniamal silvestre y domesticado está con él una cosa cerca y que es su dueño. “Victor lo esta velando un perrito cerca de él porque nunca le dan de comer”. B. 1. Cuidar algo que no esta cerca de mi. 2. Cuidar a alguin o algo que esta cerca de mi.
expression used to greet or say goodbye to s.o.
piyɑliɑː
Orthographic Variants: 
piyaliā

to keep something for someone, to care for something for someone (See Karttunen)

piyɑltiɑː
Orthographic Variants: 
piyaltiā

to entrust oneself to someone; to deposit something with someone for safekeeping (See Karttunen)

piyɑːsoɑː
Orthographic Variants: 
piyāzoā

to make something long and straight (See Karttunen)

piyɑːsteːteːkɑ
Orthographic Variants: 
piyāztētēca

to lie stretched out; to lay something straight (See Karttunen)

piyɑːstik
Orthographic Variants: 
piyāztic

something straight, narrow, vertical (See Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
piaztli

a long thin squash (see Molina); also, a tube; and by extension, the urethra (see Sahagún); a long thin gourd used to conduct liquid (Kartunnen)

chicken (without referring to gender).
# Un animal domestico que se come, hay varios colore, tiene dos pies y en uno de sus pies tiene tres dedos, su pico nada más es largo y delgado, se duerme arriba de un árbol y come maíz y otros tipos de gusanitos. “La mamá de Victorina, no lo vamos a comer ese pollo lo que mataste para nosotros porque está enferma”.
for an eagle, hawk or pig to eat a chicken.
an animal that eats chickens.
chicken excrement.