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ʃittonkweponilistɬi

an explosion or a bursting (see Molina)

ʃittontɬɑtsini

to explode, bursting (see Molina)

an explosion or bursting (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
xiuh yximatqui

an herbalist, one who works with herbs or greens (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
xiuh yzuatl

the leaf of an herb (see Molina)

a prefix that refers to a blue-green color, or something turquoise

ʃiw

an expression used to frighten away dogs, etc.
James Richard Andrews, Introduction to Classical Nahuatl, (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2003), vol. 1, 42.

See XIHUITL1.

a medicinal herb used to prevent the hair from falling out

Martín de la Cruz, Libellus de medicinalibus indorum herbis; manuscrito azteca de 1552; segun traducción latina de Juan Badiano; versión española con estudios comentarios por diversos autores (Mexico: Fondo de Cultural Económica; Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, 1991), 19 [9r.].

the leaf of an herb or a plant (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
xiuatlatl, xiuhatlatli

a blue dart thrower

(central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 3 -- The Origin of the Gods, Part IV, 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, 1978), 3.

Orthographic Variants: 
xiuhcaua

to leave a piece of land fallow, to let the weeds grow (see Molina)

ʃiwkɑːwɑːlli
Orthographic Variants: 
xiuhcāhuālli

stubble (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
xiuhcaliui

to be pale from fear or sickness (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
xiuhcaliuiliztli

greenness or freshness of the meadow (see Molina)

ʃiwkɑlli

a bower; can refer to a building covered with bowers or branches (see Karttunen); possibly also a house or building covered with green or blue materials, possibly turquoise? (see below)

an old or large house.

something very green and fresh; or, one who is pale from fear or from sickness (see Molina)

greenness or lushness, freshness of the meadow (see Molina)

ʃiwkɑmɑk

a grassy place (see Karttunen)