N

Letter N: Displaying 1721 - 1740 of 2364

the necessities of life, human maintenance, subsistence (see Molina)

neːwkɑːyoːtɬ
Orthographic Variants: 
nēuhcāyōtl

sustenance, a meal taken upon rising, breakfast (see Karttunen)

a little farther.
Orthographic Variants: 
nexaxaqualoloni
Orthographic Variants: 
nexaxaqualoloyan

fits me
(employing the Spanish loan verb, caber)

# nixtamal tiene demasiado cal y se pone o se hace muy amarillo la masa. “mi masa esta muy amarillo y no se puede comer porque se hace un poco amarga mi tortilla”.
neʃkoːmeh
Orthographic Variants: 
nexcōmeh

type of small wasp (see Karttunen)

neʃkoːmitɬ
Orthographic Variants: 
nexcōmitl

vessel for soaking maize in lime water (see Karttunen)

pot for nixtamal.
for nixtamal to turn yellow when much lime powder is added to the water
Orthographic Variants: 
nexquaqualatza
thin liquid from the preparation of nixtamal.
water left over from making nixtamal.
the liquid from nixtamal.
nixtamal from which the water and quicklime has not been removed; somethings smeared with water and quicklime.
neʃeːwɑk

an herb used in a treatment for side aches

Martín de la Cruz, Libellus de medicinalibus indorum herbis; manuscrito azteca de 1552; segun traducción latina de Juan Badiano; versión española con estudios comentarios por diversos autores (Mexico: Fondo de Cultural Económica; Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, 1991), 43 [29r.].