C / CH

Letter C/CH: Displaying 5681 - 5700 of 5700
kwiʃ

is it the...? could it be...? it is by chance...? (question indicator); this is a good clue that what follows is a quote of an oral statement/question

a kingdom of Tula (Tollan) that pertained to the Toltecs

(central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Literaturas de Anahuac y del Incario / Literatures of Anahuac and the Inca, ed. Miguel León-Portilla (Mexico City: Siglo Veintiuno Editories, 2006), 192.

kwiːʃin
Orthographic Variants: 
cuix in

a milvus, kite, or small bird of prey (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
cuix mo

It would not not be like that. It would not happen like that. (see Molina)

one of the boundaries of the Nonohualca of Tollan (Tula)
Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca, 4v. Taken from the image of the folio published in Dana Leibsohn, Script and Glyph: Pre-Hispanic History, Colonial Bookmaking, and the Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca (Washington D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks, 2009), 65. Paleography and regularization of this toponym by Stephanie Wood.

kwiːʃtɬi
Orthographic Variants: 
quixtle, cuixin, cuiztli, cuitli

kite (small bird of prey); also, a personal name (attestations point to males)
Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 254.

even yet? even still? (an adverb) (see Molina)

kwijɑːtɬ
Orthographic Variants: 
cujiatl, cujatl

a frog (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
Colhuacateuctli Cuanex

an early ruler of Tlaxcala in the autonomous era (i.e. before European colonization)
Anónimo mexicano, ed. Richley H. Crapo and Bonnie Glass-Coffin (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2005), 45.

a community in western Mexico (see attestations)

to blame
(a loanword from Spanish)

Orthographic Variants: 
cuyado

brother-in-law
(a loanword from Spanish)

Orthographic Variants: 
gora, cora

curate
(a loanword from Spanish)

Orthographic Variants: 
costodia

monstrance of the Holy Sacrament (see attestations)
(a loanword from Spanish)

Orthographic Variants: 
costodio

custodian (of the monastery)

coyote skin mat

Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 210.

a species of weasels

a species of weasels

Orthographic Variants: 
coztic alauac, cuztic alauac

green cholera (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
cuztic alauacayo

irate, angry