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Letter Z: Displaying 481 - 500 of 637

zoctli.

soːktɬi
Orthographic Variants: 
zōctli

corn husk (see Karttunen)

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zohua.

soːwɑ
Orthographic Variants: 
çohua, çoa

to spread something out, stretch it out, to display it
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), 215.

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zōhua1.

to extend s.t. flat.
A. Persona que tiende un petate o un costal en el suelo. “Octavio tiende el petate porque ya se va dormir.” B. Tender.
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zōhua2.

to string s.t. (beads or flowers)
A. Persona que mete un collar o una flor en un hilo. “Carolina hace collar para vender en el tianguis.” B. Hacer. O meter algo en un hilo.
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zohuachichi.

sowɑtʃitʃi

female dog, bitch (see Karttunen)

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zohuaehecatl.

sowɑeheːkɑtɬ
Orthographic Variants: 
zohuaehēcatl

the weeping woman (a ghost) (see Karttunen)

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zohuahua.

sowɑːwɑh
Orthographic Variants: 
zohuāhuah

one who has a wife, a married man (see Karttunen)

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zohuahuexolotl.

sowɑwehʃoːloːtɬ
Orthographic Variants: 
zohuahuehxōlōtl

turkey hen (see Karttunen)

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zohuamizton.

sowɑmistoːn
Orthographic Variants: 
zohuamiztōn

female cat (see Karttunen)

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zohuamontli.

sowɑmoːntɬi
Orthographic Variants: 
zohuamōntli

daughter-in-law, bride, fiancée (see Karttunen)

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zohuapilli.

Orthographic Variants: 
cihuapilli, zouapilli, zoapilli, zohuāpilli

lady (see also our entry for cihuapilli); or, girl or daughter in contemporary Eastern Huastecan Nahuatl (see our IDIEZ material)

1. girl. 2. daughter.
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zohuatia.

sowɑhtiɑː
Orthographic Variants: 
zohuahtiā

for a man to marry a woman (see Karttunen)

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zohuatl.

sowɑtɬ
Orthographic Variants: 
zouatl

woman (see Molina and Karttunen)

See also cihuatl for more attestations.

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Zohuatlan.

toward the west; coming from the perspective of Cholula

(sixteenth century, Quauhtinchan)
Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca, eds. Paul Kirchhoff, Lina Odena Güemes, y Luis Reyes García (México: CISINAH, INAH-SEP, 1976), 157.

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zohuatotol.

sowɑtoːtol
Orthographic Variants: 
zohuatōtol

turkey hen (see Karttunen)

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zohuilia.

sowiliɑ
Orthographic Variants: 
zouilia

to unfold or lay out clothing for another (see Molina); and see our contemporary Eastern Huastecan Nahuatl entry zōhuiliā1, which means to "extend something on the ground that belongs to someone else" (IDIEZ material)

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zōhuiliā1.

to extend s.t. on the ground that belongs to s.o. else.
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zōhuiliā2.

to perforate and thread beads or flowers for s.o.
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zohzōhua.

to extend flat things on a surface.
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zolacachapolin.

a type of locust, something like the acachapolin, but its wings are speckled like a quail (zolin)
Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter and Alicia Maria Houtrouw, "Book 11: Earthly Things", fol. 102v, Sahagún, Bernardino de. Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain. Transcribed and translated with notes by Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble. 2nd rev. ed. Santa Fe, NM: School of American Research / University of Utah Press, 1950–82. Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/11/folio/102v Accessed 7 November 2025.

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