Q | Nahuatl Dictionary

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quechcui.

for the neck of a blouse to be big enough to stick one’s head through.

quechhuahualaca.

for an animal, a drunk, a sick person or anyone’s breathing to sound bubbly.

A. Un burracho que está dormido se movió su saliba cuando respiró. “Cuando fuimos a la plaza pasamos a ver un burracho en el camino rucando en el sol”. B. se escure la saliba.

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quechhuetzi.

for a baby or a sick person’s head to tip to the side.

# Un bebé se caen del cuello cuando acaba de nacer y todavía no se maciza sus huesos. “Cuando nació el bebé de Olga se caía mucho del cuello porque su papá no lo abrazaba bien”.

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quechhuiyōni.

for part of a person’s head to be hanging off the side of the bed or crib where they are lying down.

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quechhuiyōniā.

to hang oneself.

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quechhuiyōniliā.

to tie s.t. on a demesticated animal’s neck.

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quechia.

ketʃiɑː

Orthographic Variants:

quechiā

to support something (See Karttunen)

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quechihtic.

the opening of the throat.

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quechihtico.

the opening of the throat.

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quechilacatzoa.

ketʃilɑkɑtsoɑː

Orthographic Variants:

quechilacatzoā

to twist the neck, to wring someone's neck, to strangle someone (See Karttunen)

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quechilacatztic.

ketʃilɑkɑtstik

twisted or broken-necked (adjective)

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quechilacatztic.

for a person, animal or object to have a crooked neck.

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quechilia.

ketʃiliɑ

to make someone rise up; to make something go higher (applicative of quetza)

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), 231.

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quechiliā.

to light fire to s.t. dry.

# nic. Una persona le pone carbón prendido una hierba o papel lo que está seco. “Teresa le dice a su hermano menor que le ponga carbón prendido aquellas hojas de maíz”.

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quechīltiā.

# nic. Una persona mete una leña prendida en algún lugar porque quiere que se prenda. “Martín cuando le hizo enojar su hermanito lo quemó con un carbón prendida”.

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