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Letter Q: Displaying 81 - 100 of 617

quechmāyohuiliā.

for a knowledgable person stick to stick his or her finger down oneʻs throat to clear irritating matter.
A. Una abuelita mete su dedo en la boca hasta por el cuello a otro porque le va a raspar y que lo vomite lo que no sirve y ahí. “La abuela de Hilaria metio su mano en mi boca hasta por mi cuello porque me dolia mi cuelloa”. B. Mete el dedo por la boca hasta por el cuello.
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quechmecania.

to be strangled; or, to strangle someone (transitive) (see Molina)

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quechmomotzoa.

to repel or throw off

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quechnacatl.

the flesh of the neck

(sixteenth century, central Mexico)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 10 -- The People, No. 14, Part 11, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1961), 96.

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quechnacayotl.

ketʃnɑkɑjoːtɬ
Orthographic Variants: 
quechnacayutl

the jowl of a person that has a double chin (see Molina)

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quechnahua.

ketʃnɑːwɑ
Orthographic Variants: 
quechnaua

to embrace someone, putting the arm on the neck (see Molina)

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quechnahuā.

to hug s.o., putting one’s arms around their neck; or to walk with s.o., putting one’s arm around their shoulder.
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quechnahuatequi.

ketʃnɑːwɑhteki
Orthographic Variants: 
quechnāhuahtequi

to hug someone around the neck (See Karttunen)

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quechnecuil.

ketʃnekwil

said of someone who has a turned head, a twisted neck

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quechnecuiltic.

ketʃnekwiltik

said of someone who has a turned head, a twisted neck

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quechnenetic.

ketʃnenetik

said of someone who has a turned head, a twisted neck

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Quecholac.

Orthographic Variants: 
Quechollac

an altepetl near Tecamachalco (modern state of Puebla)

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Quecholactlaca.

Orthographic Variants: 
Quechollactlaca

the people of Quecholac (modern state of Puebla)

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Quecholli.

ketʃoːlli

an aquatic bird with rich red plumage, or the red/pink feathers themselves (see attestations)

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quecholli.

Orthographic Variants: 
quechulli

a bird with rich feathers (see Molina); a roseate swan; can stand for the feathers themselves; also the name of a month

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Quecholomitl.

a personal name that has some relationship to the Roseate Spoonbill bird(?) (SW)

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quecholti.

to become a swan, as relating to music and being transported to another world, not relating to the Cygnus (late sixteenth century, Tetzcoco?)
Ballads of the Lords of New Spain: The Codex Romances de los Señores de la Nueva España, transcribed and translated by John Bierhorst (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2009), 35.

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quechpahuia.

Orthographic Variants: 
quechpauia

to carry something on one's shoulders (see Molina)

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quechpan.

on the shoulders; or, the shoulders (see Molina)

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quechpān.

the nape of s.o.’s neck.
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