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quequezquilhuitica.

keːkeːskilwitikɑ

Orthographic Variants:

quēquēzquilhuitica

at an interval of how many days? (See Karttunen)

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querella.

quarrel
(a loanword from Spanish)

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queso.

cheese
(a loanword from Spanish)

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(central Mexico, sixteenth century)
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), 107.

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quetza.

ketsɑ

to raise; to lift; to build (as in a house); to start, stir up (as in the heavens); to stand; to provide

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quetza.

1. to stand s.o. or s.t. up. 2. to stop or detain s.t. or s.o.

A. 1. Persona levanta o para a alguien o una cosa que esta acostado, para que este parado o recargado en algo. “ Adrian ayuda a esa viejita a que pararse porque quiere caminar.” 2. Persona que descansa cuando trabaja o hace una cosa. “ Adelaido descansa porque se ve que estas cansado y hace calor.”

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Quetzal.

Orthographic Variants:

Quezall

a person's name (attested male); also the name of a mountain in Huejutla

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quetzalalpiloni.

Orthographic Variants:

quetzallalpiloni

[head] band with quetzal feather tassels
Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 206.

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quetzalapanecayotl.

a quetzal feather head device, associated with the people of Quetzalapa[n] (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 3 -- The Origin of the Gods, Part IV, 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, 1978), 20.

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