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Letter C/CH: Displaying 261 - 280 of 290

crucifijo.

Orthographic Variants: 
croçifijos, crusifixo, crusificos, crucifixo, cruzcifixus, cruzifixus, crucifixu,

crucifix
(a loanword from Spanish); also often seen as a loan from Latin)

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cruz baja.

a reference to an inexpensive burial
(a loanword from Spanish)

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cruz tzicuinihua.

to jump in a cross (see Karttunen); this is partly a Spanish loanword (cruz, Spanish for cross) (SW)

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cruz.

Orthographic Variants: 
coluz, chros, colus, chrios, cros, crus, icolotzin, iteposcolutzin

a cross, a Christian cross

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cruzaroa.

Orthographic Variants: 
crusaroa, mocrusadohua

to cross
(as in roads crossing; a loan verb from the Spanish, cruzar)

Caterina Pizzigoni, ed., Testaments of Toluca (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Center Publications, 2007), 34, 162.

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cruztitech.

on the cross
(at the root, a loanword from Spanish, cruz, cross)

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cuaarcoh.

Moztla quixihuitilizceh notlayi tlen micqui, huan yeca naman quichihchihuiliah ome cuaarcoh (Sullivan et al. 2016: 128). = Tomorrow they will celebrate the year anniversary of the death of my uncle, and therefore today we are making two ceremonial arches for him. [vocabulary (TCV); time range: 2016]
Loans in Colonial and Modern Nahuatl, eds. Agnieszka Brylak, Julia Madajczak, Justyna Olko, and John Sullivan, Trends in Linguistics Documentation 35 (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2020), 86.

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cuacuahue imantecayo.

Orthographic Variants: 
quaquaue y mantecayo, quaquahue ymantecayo, quaquahue imantecayo, quaquaue imantecayo

beef fat, lard (see Molina) (partly a loanword from Spanish, manteca, lard)

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cuacuauh conetl.

Orthographic Variants: 
quaquauh conetl

a yearling calf or bullock (see Molina)

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cuaderno.

Orthographic Variants: 
quaderno

a book, or booklet (see attestations)

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cuaresma.

Orthographic Variants: 
quarezma, quaresma

Lent (see attestations)

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cuarta.

a fourth (of an hour)
(a loanword from Spanish)

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.

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cuartia.

Orthographic Variants: 
quartia

to draw and quarter someone (see attestations)

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cuartillo.

means one-fourth of an almud or a real
(a loanword from Spanish)

The Testaments of Culhuacan, eds. S. L. Cline and Miguel León-Portilla (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center Publications, 1984), 13.

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cuartos.

drawn and quartered (see attestations)

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cuauh huino apilolli.

Orthographic Variants: 
quauh uino apilolli, quauh huino apilolli.

a cup for wine (see Molina; partly a loan word, huino = vino = wine)

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cuchara.

Orthographic Variants: 
cochara

spoon
(a loanword from Spanish)

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cuchilla.

Orthographic Variants: 
cuchillo

knife (see attestation; see also cuchillo)

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cuchillo tentli.

Orthographic Variants: 
cochillo tentli

the cutting edge of a knife (see Molina; partly a loanword from Spanish, cuchillo, knife)

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cuchillo.

Orthographic Variants: 
cochilo

knife (see Molina; and see our IDIEZ entry, cochiyoh)

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