(central Mexico, seventeenth century) Codex Chimalpahin: Society and Politics in Mexico Tenochtitlan, Tlatelolco, Culhuacan, and Other Nahuatl Altepetl in Central Mexico; The Nahuatl and Spanish Annals and Accounts Collected and Recorded by don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Susan Schroeder (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), vol. 2, 106–107.
turquoise; herbs (sometimes psychedelic) and other greenish things, such as grass, greenstone; Lockhart says this word and the word for year are "possibly two words of different origin and same shape," so each will have its own entry in this dictionary 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), 241. And see other sources, below.
1. to peel the rind from a fruit or the bark from a tree. 2. to smooth or plane a plank.
# nic. Una persona le quita la cáscara de una fruta, verdura o un árbol con un machete o con cochillo. “Mateo pela una naranja porque se lo quiere comer”.