Q

Letter Q: Displaying 281 - 300 of 617
Orthographic Variants: 
quequetolpachiui
kehketsɑ
Orthographic Variants: 
quehquetza

to pace about aimlessly, wasting time; to kick out at something in anger (See Karttunen)

the ministers of the faith relating to Quetzalcoatl (see Molina)

the instrument for beating

Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 208.

the toe(s) or ball(s) of the foot (see Molina and Sahagún)

Orthographic Variants: 
quequetzuma

to bite or give bites (see Molina)

kekeʃiwi

to have an itch, mange (See Karttunen)

a crumb of bread (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
quequexqui yulmiqui

to have a terrible itch (see Molina)

kekeːʃkiɑ
Orthographic Variants: 
quequexquia

to suffer from a terrible itch (see Molina)

kekeʃkik
Orthographic Variants: 
quequexqui

an edible root vegetable, thick and white; best cooked in pot
Sahagún, Bernardino de, Antonio Valeriano, Alonso Vegerano, Martín Jacobita, Pedro de San Buenaventura, Diego de Grado, Bonifacio Maximiliano, Mateo Severino, et al. Historia general de las cosas de Nueva España (Florentine Codex), Ms. Mediceo Palatino 218–20, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Florence, MiBACT, 1577. Available at Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter, Alicia Maria Houtrouw, Kevin Terraciano, Jeanette Peterson, Diana Magaloni, and Lisa Sousa, bk. 11, fol. 129r. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/11/folio/129r?spTexts=&nhTexts= . Accessed 16 November 2025.

kekeʃkiyɑ

to have an itch, mange (See Karttunen)