C / CH

Letter C/CH: Displaying 41 - 60 of 5699

came to do (purposive action, a motion toward; past tense of quiuh, quihui)

Orthographic Variants: 
-cochiyan

where one sleeps, bedroom or bed
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), 215.

-kotʃiyɑːn
Orthographic Variants: 
-cochiyān

one's customary sleeping place, a bed (a necessarily possessed form) (see Karttunen)

property, goods, means for sustaining life

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), 215.

-kopɑ
Orthographic Variants: 
-conpa

of, concerning; toward; in such a fashion or manner

at the top of, above, at the point

-kwɑlneːskɑː
Orthographic Variants: 
-cualnēzcā

one’s good appearance, beauty; a necessarily possessed form (see Karttunen)

-kwɑːpiːkkɑ
Orthographic Variants: 
-cuāpīcca

cap, bonnet (only attested in possessed form)(see Karttunen)

at the top of, above, at the point

-kwɑːtɬɑyoːlloh
Orthographic Variants: 
-cuātlayōlloh

the crown of one’s head; or, the top of a tree (see Karttunen)

having to do with the passage of time (see various expressions below)

1) possessed form of cuemitl (e.g. nocuen = my parcel, my furrow, my agricultural ridge); 2) combining form, when followed by a consonant; otherwise, see the stem cuem-

passive applicative

-kweʃɑːnko
Orthographic Variants: 
-cuexānco

one’s lap (a necessarily possessed form; see Karttunen)

-kwitɬɑpɑn

behind someone (a necessarily bound locative; see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
qu-, qui-

he/she, they (third person singular or plural prefix attached to a transitive verb that is not already compounded with a specific direct object, with the object here being "c")

a preposition as well as an indicator for a person who is absent, of a singular number -- i.e. third person object prefix

Orthographic Variants: 
c

the Roman numeral for 100, a loan

(sixteenth century, Quauhtinchan)
Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca, eds. Paul Kirchhoff, Lina Odena Güemes, y Luis Reyes García (México: CISINAH, INAH-SEP, 1976), 173.

letter “c”.
third person singular specific object prefix.