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Displaying 481 - 520 of 1121 records found.a trimming from the edge of a garment or from maize, wheat, or beans; might this term also have served as "boundary" or edge of a piece of property or a territory? (see the attestation from Dehouve, below)
something that is upside down, or the act of turning something from top to bottom (see Molina)
a cord for measuring property length; a portion of land this size; or, a bundle of goods that could be tied with this length of cord
See also our entry for mecatl.
to enjoy something; or, to have great pleasure and contentment from something; when transitive, to give pleasure to someone (see Molina and Karttunen)
a small, squat, rather long cat; ashen, whitish, varicolored like an ocelot, blotched with black
a color between purple and orange (see Molina); perhaps auburn (see attestations)
officials of the town council, members of the cabildo; those in charge of tributes
shortened form of mochi, mochīn, mochīntin: all; or, it is everything
to cross in front of others (see Molina); or, to pay someone what is owed (applicative of ixtlahua, to pay)
a sick person, someone who is ill, a patient; or, something that has withered (see Molina and Karttunen)
to shave or cut wood, stone, hair (the combining form is xin-)
also, to cut hair (and haircutting styles were linked to certain ethnicities)
with; when; for which reason
to contradict oneself or retract; to contradict what someone else says; to disrupt speech (see Molina)
cultivated land; this is a term, possibly regional, that combines two types of agricultural land, milli and tlalli; while both terms are common, they are rarely well differentiated
to live
something that lives (noun) (see Molina)
to appear to someone, to reveal oneself to someone; to show something or someone to others, to get others to see something (Karttunen)
to pursue someone, follow someone, or investigate, observe, see to, look into
a citizen of the pueblo, or something that pertains to a certain neighborhood (see Molina)
to spend a long time (see Molina and Lockhart); to last a long time; to take a long time; to be a long time
something bought
the coat of arms or battle devices, weapons, or insignia that pertain to a city or a pueblo (see Molina)
a family (see Molina); possibly also used to refer to granaries (see attestations)
to think about; consider; support oneself (see Karttunen); to maintain oneself through one's own effort (see Molina)
"that which is usually done," the customary action or habitual action, and, by extension, "one who typically does that thing"; e.g. cuicani = one who customarily sings; e.g. tecuani = he customarily eats people; or, this can also be a characteristic; and, added to verb in an "if" clause, such as "if I had done it"
land deserver, landholder (and, by extension, town founder and perhaps even conqueror -- under study) (see attestations)
a "bull" (as in papal bull, a major pronouncement from the Pope; or, a bull of indulgence, etc.); people could make donations to the church to assuage their guilt for sins, and this was called a "bula"
(a loanword from Spanish)
it doesn't matter; I don't care how; I don't know anything about it; etc. (see Carochi and Olmos; in no way; in no manner)