Q | Nahuatl Dictionary

Letter Q: Displaying 441 - 460 of 612

quiliton.

Orange-fronted Parakeet, a bird (see Hunn, attestations)

quilitzin.

# Un tipo de pájaro y su color es verde, siempre andan de dos o varios, se parecen como los cotorros nada más es un poco pequeño

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quilpaltia.

to become blue-green (see Sahagún)

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quilpaltic.

kilpɑːltik

a color between blue and green (see Molina)

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quilpiqui.

one who gathers quelites; a commoner, a vassal, a macehualli

(sixteenth century, Quauhtinchan)
Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca, eds. Paul Kirchhoff, Lina Odena Güemes, y Luis Reyes García (México: CISINAH, INAH-SEP, 1976), 153, nota 5.

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quiltectli.

kiltektɬi

a small cabbage or a young lettuce plant, ready for transplanting (see Molina)

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quiltic chalchihuitl.

Orthographic Variants:

quiltic chalchiuitl

this is the same stone as the quetzalchalchihuitl (see Molina)

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quiltic.

kiltik

the color green (see Molina)

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people who gather edible herbs/grasses (quilitl); part of a metaphorical expression meant to refer to vassals, commmoners, macehuales: quilticanemi (those who pick quelites in Spanish), quauhticanemi (those who gather firewood) (sixteenth century, Quauhtinchan)
Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca, eds. Paul Kirchhoff, Lina Odena Güemes, y Luis Reyes García (México: CISINAH, INAH-SEP, 1976), 153, nota 5.

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