Z

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a small shrimp (see Molina)

sokitʃiːwɑ
Orthographic Variants: 
zoquichiua

to make mud to build walls, or to make bricks, etc. (see Molina)

1. reinforce a wall with mud. 2. for a child to play with mud.
for a woman to mix mud and sand for making clay griddles or pottery.
sokitʃiːwki
Orthographic Variants: 
çoquichiuhqui

someone who works clay (see Karttunen); a potter (see Sahagún)

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), 42.

Orthographic Variants: 
zoquiquaqualachtla

a marshy, muddy place (see Molina)

sokiwiɑː
Orthographic Variants: 
zoquiuia

to get everything muddy (see Molina)

to stir mud with one’s hand or foot.
to no longer be able to stand being dirty.
sokimoːtɬɑ

to throw mud at someone

sokineloɑː

to get someone else muddy; to get oneself muddy; to get everything muddy

Orthographic Variants: 
çoquio

something covered with mud or clay
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), 216.

sokipɑtʃoɑː

to add manure to the land in a certain way (see Molina)

sokipɑːtɬɑ
Orthographic Variants: 
zoquipātla

to mix, beat mud (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
zoquipolacouayan

a deep miry place; obstacle, impediment, obstruction (metaphorically speaking); a fix, a jam, or a tight spot (see Molina)

sokipoːlɑkki

stuck in a miry place

sokipoːlɑktiɑ

to get stuck in mud; to cause someone else to be stuck in mud (see Molina)

sokipoːlɑki

to get mired in mud or sludge; or, to sink in mud (see Molina)

sokipoloɑ

to prepare mud for pottery or adobe bricks (see Molina)

sokipoloːlli

prepared clay that is used for making pots (see Molina)