N

Letter N: Displaying 1681 - 1700 of 2364
nehtoːlihtɬɑkoɑ
nehtoːlli
Orthographic Variants: 
nehtolli

a vow, a promise, a vote (see Karttunen and Molina)

nehtoːltiɑː
nehtoːltiːlistɬi
Orthographic Variants: 
netonalcaualtiliztli
netopɑlihtoːlistɬi
Orthographic Variants: 
netopeoalli

ridicule

Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 10 -- The People, No. 14, Part 11, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1961), 56.

nehtoːtilistɬi

dancing (see Lockhart); also can include singing (see attestations)
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), 227.

nehtoːtiːloːjɑːn

the place where people dance (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
netquitiuetziliztli
Orthographic Variants: 
netzaqualiztli
Orthographic Variants: 
netzatzaqualiztli
1. for a person or animal to clamp their teeth together. 2. for a dead person’s mouth to be clamped shut.
# 1. Una persona, animal silvestre y animal domestico pone juntos los dientes y no abre la boca. “ese puerco pone juntos sus dientes por dentro porque no quiere que le vean la boca”. 2. Una persona, animal silvestre y animal domestico el que se muere junta sus dientes sin abrir la boca. “Cuando Mario se murió juntó sus dientes y no abrió la boca porque se colgo”.