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Letter P: Displaying 1341 - 1360 of 1590

popocacitlalin.

popoːkɑsiːtɬɑl
Orthographic Variants: 
popōcacītlal

comet (See Karttunen)

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popocales.

Russet-naped Wood-Rail, a bird (see Hunn, attestations); the word might seem to have a Hispanized orthography (perhaps originally, popoca-calli, smoking house) but sources emphasize that popocales is the sound the bird makes, "po-po-kalli-kalli" (an onomatopoetic word)

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popocani.

popoːkɑni

something from which smoke emerges (see Molina)

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Popocatepetl.

Orthographic Variants: 
Popocatzin

name of a famous large volcano; seems to be a sentence saying "the mountain smokes"

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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popocatica tetl.

like a smoking stone; or, "as if the rock were smoking"
Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter and Alicia Maria Houtrouw, "Book undefined: The People", fol. 117r, Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/10/folio/117r?spTexts=&nhTexts= Accessed 1 October 2025.

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Popocatl.

Orthographic Variants: 
Pupucatli

a person's name (attested as male)

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Popocatzin.

name of the volcano now (and then) also called Popōcatepētl; "he smokes, one who smokes," with verb popōca to smoke
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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popochcaxitl.

popoːtʃkɑʃitɬ
Orthographic Variants: 
popōchcaxitl

censer, vessel for incense (See Karttunen)

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popōchcōmitl.

clay chalice for burning copal incense.
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popochectic.

pohpoːtʃektik
Orthographic Variants: 
pohpōchectic

something smoky (See Karttunen)

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popochhuia.

popoːtʃwiɑː

to perfume or incense oneself or something else (see Molina); to be smoked, or to smoke or fumigate something (see Karttunen)

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popōchhuiā.

to apply copal smoke to s.t. on an altar.
A. Persona que pone el humo con el copal en alguna cosa que esta en el altar. “ Lina siempre por las mañanas les hecha humo a los santitos porque quiere estar bien en ese dia.”
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popōchhuiliā.

1. to apply incense to s.t. belonging to s.o. else. 2. to apply incense to the body of s.o.‘s relative, be they dead or alive.
# 1. una persona copaleo todo las cosas que otro ha dejado ahí en el altar. “Cuando Hilda le lleva una tortilla a mi mamá le dice que lo ponga en el altar y ella lo copalea y después lo levanta”. 2. una persona copalea a otro su conocido lo que esta muerto y lo tienen acostado enfrente del altar. “yo si copalie al esposo de mi primo el que esta muerto y todavía no lo habían enterrado”.
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popochini.

pohpotʃiːni
Orthographic Variants: 
pohpochīni

to ravel, fray (See Karttunen)

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popochtli.

popoːtʃtɬi
Orthographic Variants: 
popōchtli

perfume(s) (see Molina); incense (see Karttunen)

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popoctic.

pohpoːktik
Orthographic Variants: 
pohpōctic

something the color of smoke (See Karttunen)

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popohua.

pohpoːwɑ
Orthographic Variants: 
pohpōhua, popoa

to clean something (see Karttunen) or restore something (see Molina)

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popohua.

poːpoːwɑ
Orthographic Variants: 
pōpōhua

to pay something, to make restitution for something (See Karttunen)

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popohui.

for something to come into its own or be as it should be

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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popolaqui.

pohpoːlɑki
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