T | Nahuatl Dictionary

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Letter T: Displaying 8781 - 8800 of 13569

tlapayahui.

tɬɑpɑyɑwi

Orthographic Variants:

tlapayaui

to rain gently for a long time (see Karttunen and Molina)

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tlapayahuitl.

a heavy rain (see attestations)

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tlapayana.

Orthographic Variants:

tlapaiana

it breaks things up (speaking of the moler)

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(central Mexico, sixteenth century)
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), 109.

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