Y

Letter Y: Displaying 361 - 380 of 1261
yɑːoːʃoːtʃitɬ
Orthographic Variants: 
yāōxōchitl

a type of flower (see Karttunen); also, a person's name (see example, below)

jɑːoːjɑwɑloɑ
Orthographic Variants: 
yaoyaualoa

to fence or encircle the enemies in war (see Molina)

through warfare (see attestations)

yɑːoːyoːtɬ
Orthographic Variants: 
yavyutl, yauyutl, yaohyotl

battle(s), fighting, war, warfare

jɑpɑlektik

black-and-blue or injured flesh (see Molina)

jɑpɑleːwɑ
Orthographic Variants: 
yapaleua

to have bruises from being whipped; or, to have black and blue lips (see Molina)

jɑpɑleːwɑk
Orthographic Variants: 
yapaleuac

black and blue or injured flesh (see Molina)

jɑpɑleːwɑlistɬi
Orthographic Variants: 
yapaleualiztli

a bruise, or sign of a blow (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
yappalli

the color black (see Molina)

to turn out or end up with dark skin (see Molina)

something dyed black (see Molina)

something that has a tip, or something that has a nose (see Molina)

gone, already departed for someplace else (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
Yyaquy

a person's name (attested as male)

jɑːw
Orthographic Variants: 
iauh

to go; to go along (well or badly), mainly seen in the 3rd person
James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 242.

See YĀ.

sweet-scented marigold (also yauhtli), Tagetes lucida

Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan, et al. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 103.

a deity: "Owner of the Sweet-Scented Marigold Vestment;" this was one of the deities associated with rain and fertility, the Tlaloque
Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan, et al. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 103.

Orthographic Variants: 
Yiauhqueme

this was a name given a child on the special occasion of a human sacrifice that would be made of the child on the top of a hill of the same name
Bernard Ortiz de Montellano, Aztec Medicine, Health, and Nutrition (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1990), 195.

also one of the rain deities (tlaloque), who were "dwarfish assistants" to Tlaloc
Handbook of Middle American Indians, vols. 10 and 11: Archaeology of Northern Mesoamerica, eds. Gordon F. Ekholm and Ignacio Bernal (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1971).

Orthographic Variants: 
yauhtic huitzilin

a species of hummingbird (see Hunn, attestations)