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Letter C/CH: Displaying 101 - 120 of 290

cauallo pati.

Orthographic Variants: 
caballo pati

a veterinary surgeon, a veterinarian
(partially a loanword from Spanish; caballo, horse)

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cauallo patiani.

a veterinarian for horses
(partially a loanword from Spanish; caballo, horse)

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cauallo pixqui.

Orthographic Variants: 
caballo pixqui

groomsman, who works with horses; a horse keeper (see Molina)
(partially a loanword from Spanish; caballo, horse); also seen translated as arriero, muleteer

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cauallo quetzontli.

Orthographic Variants: 
cauallo quetzuntli, caballo quetzontli

horsehair or mane (see Molina)
(partially a loanword from Spanish; caballo, horse)

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cauallo temmecatl.

Orthographic Variants: 
caballo temmecatl

the headstall of a halter (see Molina, i.e. jáquima)
(partially a loanword from Spanish; caballo, horse)

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cauallo temmecayotl.

Orthographic Variants: 
caballo temmecayotl

horse reins (see Molina)
(partially a loanword from Spanish; caballo, horse)

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cauallo tlacuitia.

Orthographic Variants: 
caballo tlacuitia

to feed the horses (see Molina)
(partially a loanword from Spanish; caballo, horse)

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cauallo tlapachiuhcayotl.

a horse blanket
(partially a loanword from Spanish; caballo, horse)

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cauallo tlatquitl.

Orthographic Variants: 
caballo tlatquitl

things having to do with horses (see Molina)
(partially a loanword from Spanish; caballo, horse)

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cauallocaccopina.

Orthographic Variants: 
caballo caccopina, caballocaccopina

to remove shoes from horses (see Molina)
(partially a loanword from Spanish; caballo, horse)

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cauallopan ehua icpalli.

a saddle for a horse (see Molina)
(partially a loanword from Spanish; caballo, horse)

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Caxtilcopa.

in Spanish, or more literally, in Castilian
(a loanword from Spanish, Nahuatlized)

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Caxtillan tlaca.

Orthographic Variants: 
castillan tlaca, caxtillantlaca, caxtilantlaca, castillantlaca

people from Castile (Castilla), i.e. Spaniards
(includes a loanword from Spanish, Nahuatlized)

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Caxtillan.

Orthographic Variants: 
Caxtīllān, Castilan, Castillan, gastilan, Castila

Castile (Castilla, Nahuatlized and with a locative -tlan suffix added); Castile was a kingdom of what became Spain; Caxtillan or Castillan could also refer more generically to Spain

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Caxtillantlatolli.

Orthographic Variants: 
Caxtillantlahtolli

the Spanish language (attested in modern Nahuatl)

Victoriano de la Cruz Cruz, Facebook posting, June 5, 2014, Nahuatlahtolli page.

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Caxtilteca.

Spaniards, literally Castillians (see attestations)

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Caxtiltecatl.

kɑʃtilteːkɑtɬ
Orthographic Variants: 
cashtiltecal, caxtiltecantli

a Spaniard (from the Spanish word, Castilla, plus the Nahuatl suffix for "person of")

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), 213.

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cayani.

gañán = a resident worker, typically on an estate, a hired hand (see the entry for gañán)

Rebecca Horn's notecards from Nahuatl study sessions with James Lockhart, ca. late 1970s and early 1980s.

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cayanis.

gañanes (hired men, orthographic example comes from Mexico City, 1634)  Frances Karttunen and James Lockhart, Nahuatl in the Middle Years: Language Contact Phenomena in Texts of the Colonial Period, Linguistics 85 (Los Angeles, University of California Publications, 1976), 103.

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ce amatlapalli.

the leaf of a tree, or an herb with wide leaves

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