C / CH

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a considerable piece of land, intended to hold 12 fanegas of seed and measure 552 by 1104 varas (Spanish yards) or 609,408 square varas, could also be divided into four suertes
(a loanword from Spanish)

John Roy Reasonover, Land Measures (1946).

a place where horses or other beasts of burden are raised
(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), 212.

(a Spanish) gentleman, horseman, or a knight of a military order
(a loanword from Spanish)

Orthographic Variants: 
cauallo cactlaça

to remove horseshoes
(partially a loanword from Spanish, caballo, horse)

Orthographic Variants: 
cauallo mecatl

horse halter (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
cauallo, cavallo, cabayo, cavayo, cahuayo, cauaio, cabalyo, cabalio, cahualo, cabalon, caoallo

horse (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), 212.

Orthographic Variants: 
cauecera, capisela, cabeseran, cabeçerra, cafecela, cabicera, capicelas, cabiçera, cabiçera

head town of a district
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), 212.

Orthographic Variants: 
cabirdo, capilton, capildo, cauildo, capilto, cauilto, cavildo

municipal council
The Tlaxcalan Actas: A Compendium of the Records of the Cabildo of Tlaxcala (1545-1627), eds. James Lockhart, Frances Berdan, and Arthur J.O. Anderson (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1986), 153.

goat
(a loanword from Spanish)

kɑkɑ

toad(s), frog(s) (see Karttunen)

to drink coffee after all.
kɑhkɑːwɑ

for couples to separate or leave each other many times; or for some people to pass others on the road (see Molina)

1. to leave uneaten food someplace after all. 2. to return a stolen bride to her parents after all.
kɑkɑwɑɑːtɬ

cocoa drink; chocolate drink (see Molina)

kɑkɑwɑkɑ

to have a high fever, a temperature (see Molina)

for something to glitter when hit by the sun or light.
#brilla. brilla una cosa cuando le haya el sol o la luz. “el vestido de mi tía brilla muy bonito cuando camina en el sol.”

cocoa pod (see Molina)

kɑkɑwɑtʃihtʃiːwɑ

to make counterfeit cocoa beans (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
cacahuaquahuitl

a cacao tree