Q

Letter Q: Displaying 381 - 400 of 610
Orthographic Variants: 
yquezquihuiyoc

some days later

Robert Haskett and Stephanie Wood's notes from Nahuatl sessions with James Lockhart and subsequent research.

keːskilwitɬ

how many days?; some number of days; a few days; several days

how many are there?

keːskin
Orthographic Variants: 
quezquintin

how many are there?

keːskintin

how many are there?

keːskipɑ

how many times? (see Molina, Karttunen, Carochi, etc.); when not a question: a few times, several times (see Lockhart)

keːskitetɬ
Orthographic Variants: 
quēzquitetl

a bit of something; a little bit (See Karttunen)

a plant believed to cure a cough and other chest discomforts

Francisco Hernández, Cuatro libros de la naturaleza y virtudes de las plantas y animales, de uso medicinal en la Nueva España (Mexico City: Oficina tip, de la Secretaría de fomento, 1888), 245–246.

keːskitɬɑmɑntɬi

how many things, pieces, or pairs?

keːstepolli
Orthographic Variants: 
quetztepolli

thigh bone
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 2 -- The Ceremonies, no. 14, Part III, 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, 1951), 57.

part of a person or animal’s body between the hip and the ribcage.
part of a person or animal’s body between the hip and the ribcage.
part of a person or animal’s body between the hip and the ribcage.
keːssɑnnel
Orthographic Variants: 
quēzzannel

what is to be done? (See Karttunen)

him, her, it; 3rd person sing. obj. prefix of verbs when there is no other supporting vowel on either side

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), 231.

refers to third person singular (see Molina)

third person singular specific object prefix.