Search Issues: Update 2026-09-16 - Repairs to some of our search pages are ongoing. Thank you for your continued patience!

Meanwhile, elements of the Advanced Search are working and the Alphabetical Listings are working, too.

nahualchihua.

Headword: 
nahualchihua.
Principal English Translation: 

rise up to something, taking it with caution and with dissimulation (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
naualchiua
IPAspelling: 
nɑːwɑltʃiːwɑ
Alonso de Molina: 

naualchiua. nitla. (pret. onitlanaualchiuh.) alzarse con algo, tomandolo con cautela y con disimulacion.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 063r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.