P | Nahuatl Dictionary

Letter P: Displaying 1241 - 1260 of 1583

pochtecatini.

Orthographic Variants:

puchtecatini

one who trades in merchandise, a merchant, a vendor (see Molina)

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pochtecatl.

Orthographic Variants:

puchtecatl

a long distance merchant (plural: pochteca, pōchtēcah)
S. L. Cline, Colonial Culhuacan, 1580-1600: A Social History of an Aztec Town (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1986), p. 236.

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Pochtecatlailotlac.

the name or title of a high judge (see Sahagún)

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pochtecatlailotlac.

a high judge (see Sahagún)

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principal merchants, ruler-merchants (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 9 -- The Merchants, No. 14, Part 10, 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, 1959), 1.

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pochtecayotl.

Orthographic Variants:

puchtecayotl, puchtecaiotl

the trade or work of merchants (see Molina)

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pochtlan.

Orthographic Variants:

puchtlan

merchantry, or a place with a market (sometimes spelled Puxtla or Puxtlan)

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pochuia.

poːtʃuiɑː

Orthographic Variants:

pōchuiā

to smoke, fumigate something (See Karttunen)

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pocmictia.

poːkmiktiɑ

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pōcmictiā.

to make s.o. choke with smoke.

# una persona le quita el aire a otro con homo. “Elida le saco el aire a su hermano cuando estaba donde hacia el fuego”.

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pocmimilca.

poːkmimilkɑ

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pōcmiqui.

to be overwhelmed by smoke, to have watery eyes and begin to cough.

# una persona no aguanta el humo y empieza a llorar. “Candy no aguanta el olor del humo cuando su mamá hace fuego y no puede prender”.

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pōcmiquīltiā.

to choke s.o. or an animal with smoke.

# una persona hace que no aguante otra persona con el humo. “Elida hizo que no aguantara del humo su hermano cuando estaba donde estaba haciendo la lumbre”.

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poctecomatl.

incense burner

(central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 1 -- The Gods; No. 14, Part 2, 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, 1950), 19.

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poctemitia.

poːkteːmiːtiɑː

Orthographic Variants:

pōctēmītiā

to fill something up with smoke (See Karttunen)

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poctlan.

a place of smoke; sometimes paired with mist in a metaphor for death

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), 63.

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