P

Letter P: Displaying 1321 - 1340 of 1579

a surname; held, for instance, by the mestizo Juan Bautista Pomar of Tetzcoco; also seen in the Matrícula de Huexotzinco, f. 753r. (SW)

very dense, leafy tree.

west, the West
(a loanword from Spanish)

pontifical
(a loanword from Spanish)

Orthographic Variants: 
ponson

a punch (a metal tool)
(a loanword from Spanish)

popoːkɑ
Orthographic Variants: 
pupuca

to smoke (for smoke to come out of a volcano, for instance); or, for a comet to appear

for s.t. to smoke.
popoːkɑsiːtɬɑl
Orthographic Variants: 
popōcacītlal

comet (See Karttunen)

Russet-naped Wood-Rail, a bird (see Hunn, attestations); the word might seem to have a Hispanized orthography (perhaps originally, popoca-calli, smoking house) but sources emphasize that popocales is the sound the bird makes, "po-po-kalli-kalli" (an onomatopoetic word)

popoːkɑni

something from which smoke emerges (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
Popocatzin

name of a famous large volcano; seems to be a sentence saying "the mountain smokes"

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), 230.

Orthographic Variants: 
Pupucatli

a person's name (attested as male)

name of the volcano now (and then) also called Popōcatepētl; "he smokes, one who smokes," with verb popōca to smoke
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), 230.

popoːtʃkɑʃitɬ
Orthographic Variants: 
popōchcaxitl

censer, vessel for incense (See Karttunen)

clay chalice for burning copal incense.
pohpoːtʃektik
Orthographic Variants: 
pohpōchectic

something smoky (See Karttunen)