T

Letter T: Displaying 3041 - 3060 of 13492
1. to pluck fruits or vegatables from their stem. 2. to cut paper or cloth with a sharp instrument. 3. for something sharp to cut s.o. or s.t.’s skin.
# 1. nic. Una persona agarra algo lo que está en el árbol. “Mi abuelo no quiere naranja cuando le dan porque va los trabajadores”. 2. nic. Una persona lo parte por la mitad una cosa con algo que corta. “Victorina, ven acortarlo un poco mi ropa porque no me entra”.
teki

to cut, cut off; to curtail (see Molina, Karttunen, and Lockhart)

teːkiɑː
Orthographic Variants: 
tēquiā

to sprinkle something on someone, something (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tequiaana
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tequiauac

at the entrance to a house, in front of the door to the house (see Molina)

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tequiauatl

a stone arch, the arch of a doorway; or, the entrance to a house (see Molina)

a document about tribute-labor (ca. 1582, México)
Luis Reyes García, ¿Como te confundes? ¿Acaso no somos conquistados? Anales de Juan Bautista (Mexico: Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, Biblioteca Lorenzo Boturini Insigne y Nacional Basílica de Guadalupe, 2001), 228–229.

tekiɑːtɬi
Orthographic Variants: 
tequiatli

to drink a lot of water or cacao beverage (see Molina)

tekiɑːtɬini
Orthographic Variants: 
tequiatlini
tekikɑːwɑ
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tequicaua

tribute house, clearing house for the coatequitl (or cohuatequitl) and tribute in kind (apparently always used in this locative form rather than the absolutive "tequicalli") (p. 154); the city tribute house, which is always in the locative form (p. 23).
The Tlaxcalan Actas: A Compendium of the Records of the Cabildo of Tlaxcala (1545-1627), eds. James Lockhart, Frances Berdan, and Arthur J.O. Anderson (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1986), 154.

tekikɑlli

tribute house, from tequitl (tribute labor) and calli (house, building)

to perform tribute labor

to do any kind of work.
# ni. Una persona hace todo tipo de trabajo aunque es difícil. “La esposa de Benito siempre va hacer un trabajo en casa de su suegra porque no es floja”.
tekitʃiːwɑltiɑ
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tequichiualtia

a parcel devoted to raising tribute payments (see attestations)

tekikwitɬɑwiltiɑ
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tequicuitlauiltia
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tequioa

a war captain, a ranking warrior, a valiant warrior