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Letter X: Displaying 1 - 20 of 1067

indicates unvoiced "y" in preterite

-ʃeliwiyɑːn
Orthographic Variants: 
-xelihuiyān

the dividing place of something (see Karttunen); a necessarily possessed form

-ʃiwkɑyoːtɬ
Orthographic Variants: 
-xiuhcayōtl

a matter of a certain number of years (see Karttunen); this has to have a prefix

-ʃiwtiɑː
Orthographic Variants: 
-xiuhtiā, -xiuhtiya

to attain a certain age (must have a prefix to tell the number of years) (see Karttunen)

-ʃoːtʃihkwɑlloː
Orthographic Variants: 
-xōchihcuallō

the crop of fruit (of a tree) (see Karttunen); a necessarily possessed form

-ʃoːtʃiyoː
Orthographic Variants: 
-xōchiyō

the flowers (of a plant, of a tree) (a necessarily possessed form) (see Karttunen)

-ʃoːtɬɑkɑ
Orthographic Variants: 
-xōtlaca

blooming (of flowers) (see Karttunen); a necessarily possessed form

Orthographic Variants: 
X

a Roman numeral for the number 10 (see attestations)

letter “x”.
Orthographic Variants: 
xacalquauitztli, xacalquahuitztli

the upper part of a pillar of a thatched hut (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
xacalquatehuitzocalco

a hut with a pointed roof (Tlaxcala, 1662–1692)
Juan Buenaventura Zapata y Mendoza, Historia cronológica de la Noble Ciudad de Tlaxcala, transcripción paleográfica, traducción, presentación y notas por Luis Reyes García y Andrea Martínez Baracs (Tlaxcala and Mexico City: Universidad Autónoma de Tlaxcala, Secretaría de Extensión Universitaria y Difusión Cultural, y Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, 1995), 484–485.

ʃɑhkɑlli
Orthographic Variants: 
xahcalli, xacali, sacali

a hut (Cline); a house of poles and thatch (Karttunen and Molina)
S. L. Cline, Colonial Culhuacan, 1580-1600: A Social History of an Aztec Town (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1986), 236.

xahcalli entered Spanish as jacal (Stephanie Wood, Editor)

ʃɑhkɑlmoːyoːtɬ
Orthographic Variants: 
xahcalmōyōtl

mosquito (see Karttunen)

ʃɑkɑltoːntɬi
for a tree to grow dense and leafy.
dense, leafy tree.
for a tree to grow dense and leafy.