Q

Letter Q: Displaying 501 - 520 of 617
kimotɬɑtkiːtiɑːni

a history or a story of what is being done now, what is happening now (see Molina)

now, or, just a little while ago (see Molina)

a history or a story of that which is being done or happening in the present time (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
quin ualaz

the person who has to come later (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
in quin iuh, yn quin iuh

just barely, just recently

the first time (see Molina)

others will follow; e.g. I will go after them, or, I will be the last of those who want to go (see Molina; the example is given in the first person singular)

something new, something never before seen; or, a new invention (see Molina)

after, at the end, or afterwards (see Molina)

the coming generation (see Molina)

form taken by quim- 3rd person pl. obj. prefix before a nonlabial consonant

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), 232.

kin

then; recently; just after; just; just now; afterwards; later (future time)

third person plural specific object prefix.
kinɑtʃiːk

a little while ago (see Karttunen and Molina)

the name of the man who founded the important altepetl of Tetzcoco; we are retaining the reverential suffix here, awaiting clarification of the name, which seems to be that of a non-Nahua indigenous man; he also had the epithet Tlaltecatl

now, for a little while (ahora poco ha)

Gran Diccionario del Náhuatl, http://www.gdn.unam.mx/diccionario/consultar/palabra/quinaxca

Orthographic Variants: 
quinse

fifteen
(a loanword from Spanish) (see attestations)