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Displaying 1041 - 1080 of 1121 records found.head, skull; the human head cut off and separated from the body (see Molina); head of cattle
the price, the worth of something (see Karttunen); payment, wage, value (see Lockhart and Molina)
to go around something, to surround it; to walk turning, or to walk around something; to walk in procession, to parade; also, to migrate
also, a walking-survey of territorial boundaries (see attestations)
ten; theoretically, a reference to the ten fingers on the two hands (with maitl, hand, plus tlactli, bust or chest, which unites the two arms/hands) (see Siméon and Launey)
land pertaining to the calpolli (see our entry for calpolli for its various meanings; see attestations below)
Snowy Egret, a bird (see Hunn, attestations); also, a term for a heron-feather headdress (see Molina and attestations)
yellow water used by a deity to wash commoners, along with blue water (the latter, matlalatl)
(central Mexico, sixteenth-century)
blue water with which a deity was believed to wash commoners, along with a yellow water (the latter, toxpalatl)
literally, "big house," usually a subunit of an altepetl, and earlier an egalitarian kin group with migration associations (see attestations)
jail (literally, the place where people are tied)
together, in common, involving everyone; mutuality, reciprocity (see Karttunen); can also refer to a solo in singing; a mutual thing (see attestations)
signal, sign, example, comparison, pattern, standard, insignia, mark, model (see Molina); the sign of the cross; a representation; a signature (see attestations)
footwear, sandal
boundary; wall; fence; construction (see Molina, Karttunen, Lockhart, and attestations)
body; upper body; chest; torso
set down, place, establish; seat oneself; give a seat to another, install in leadership; compose or make (as in statutes and ordinances); this verb was also used in discussions of town foundings
a miracle, a wonder; a marvel; a miracle narrative; a theatrical piece
coyote; also applied to things of a mixed style, mixed heritage (Spanish-indigenous); a color, yellow; also, a person's name
something yellow/red; gold
a Jew
song(s), singing; music
fingernail(s), toenail(s) (see Molina and Karttunen) (we also have an entry for iztetl, which is a variant spelling); this nail can also pertain to an animal, as the glyph for Iztitlan appears to have the claw of an eagle, or other animal
a silk cotton tree (Ceiba pentandra), a "large and beautiful" tree (see Molina and Karttunen); frondous, this tree produces something that looks like cotton bolls
community; community chest; even seen to mean "in common"
(a loanword from Spanish)
a sage, a wise person, a scholar
Marina was a name given to some indigenous women, but its origins are European; the name was Nahuatlized to Malintzin, which changes the r to l (since 'r' was not in the Nahuatl alphabet) and adds the reverential -tzin; Malinztin is also a reverential form for Mary; Malintzin was the name of an indigenous woman who was very influential as an interpreter in the Spanish invasion and colonization of Mexico, having been given to Cortés by an indigenous lord; she also bore a son by Cortés (see attestations)
meat, flesh
nose, point, something in the lead