T

Letter T: Displaying 13261 - 13280 of 13508
tsonkɑyɑːwɑ
Orthographic Variants: 
tzoncayāhua

to muss one’s hair; to groom someone (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tzoncaiaoac

thin-haired

(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), 113.

"loose-hanging locks" (the hairdo of Xipe and consists of separate long tresses of hair)

Justyna Olko, Turquoise Diadems and Staffs of Office: Elite Costume and Insignia of Power in Aztec and Early Colonial Mexico (Warsaw: Polish Society for Latin American Studies and Centre for Studies on the Classical Tradition, University of Warsaw, 2005), 112.

1. on top of s.o.’s head. 2. on top of a tree or a house.
Orthographic Variants: 
tzuncoatl

a snake or serpent that lives in the water trough of pigs or horses (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
tzoncocoztly

yellow hair

a place name; the place where Tlamaca Xicotenantli was the teuctli; he was married to Papalo; they had two children in Chalciuhtepec, Ome Miquiztli Nequametl and Ome Quauhtli Itzcohuatl

nació en Chalchiuhtepec (Quauhtinchan, s. XVI)
Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca, eds. Paul Kirchhoff, Lina Odena Güemes, y Luis Reyes García (México: CISINAH, INAH-SEP, 1976), 138.

tsonkotoːnɑ

to harvest stalks of wheat (or the like) by hand (see Molina)

for one's hair to become more blonde (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
tzoncuztilia

for one's hair to become blond (see Molina)

tsonkwɑhkwɑː
Orthographic Variants: 
tzoncuahcuā

to chew something (see Karttunen)

to chew on s.t. with swallowing it.
tsonkweːloɑː
Orthographic Variants: 
tzoncuēloā

for a snake or worm to coil (see Karttunen)

tsonkwepɑ

to turn somersaults; to turn something upside down (see Karttunen)

hair leather, or headdress of leather thongs
Justyna Olko, Turquoise Diadems and Staffs of Office: Elite Costume and Insignia of Power in Aztec and Early Colonial Mexico (Warsaw: Polish Society for Latin American Studies and Centre for Studies on the Classical Tradition, University of Warsaw, 2005), 143.

s.o. or an animal’s scalp.

to take something away from the load another person carries, so that the load will not weigh as much

tsoneːwɑ
Orthographic Variants: 
tzoneua