Q

Letter Q: Displaying 201 - 220 of 615
1. sometimes. 2. in the early morning.
Orthographic Variants: 
quemocye?
Orthographic Variants: 
quen ca tle yca tle ypampa

how, why, for what reason?

(central Mexico, early seventeenth century)
Codex Chimalpahin: Society and Politics in Mexico Tenochtitlan, Tlatelolco, Culhuacan, and Other Nahuatl Altepetl in Central Mexico; The Nahuatl and Spanish Annals and Accounts Collected and Recorded by don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Susan Schroeder (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), vol. 2, 216–217.

what is to be done

I'm related to him (an idiomatic expression)

Rebecca Horn's notes from Nahuatl classes with James Lockhart, being harvested for this dictionary by Stephanie Wood.

what is to be done

somewhat, so-so

keːn

how?; what?; in what way? in what manner? (but beware not to confuse a plural ending for the preterite perfect, when it has an intrusive n)

keːnɑmih
Orthographic Variants: 
quename, quēnamih

how? in what manner or condition?; how, what; by late period in New Spain, this worked in many ways like the Spanish "como", that (see Karttunen, Molina, Carochi/Lockhart)

in this way

(eighteenth century; used by a doctor who was not a native speaker but had studied classical Nahuatl)
Neville Stiles, Jeff Burnham, James Nauman, "Los concejos médicos del Dr. Bartolache sobre las pastillas de fierro: Un documento colonial en el náhuatl del siglo XVIII," Estudios de Cultural Náhuatl 19 (1989), 269–287, see p. 280.

to give form, shape, or a grid to something (see Molina)

keːnɑmihkɑːtsintɬi

a respectful greeting; how are you? (see Molina and Karttunen)

kentʃiːwɑ
Orthographic Variants: 
quenchiua