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Letter X: Displaying 401 - 420 of 1050

xiuh.

See XIHUITL1.
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xiuhamolli.

a medicinal herb used to prevent the hair from falling out

Martín de la Cruz, Libellus de medicinalibus indorum herbis; manuscrito azteca de 1552; segun traducción latina de Juan Badiano; versión española con estudios comentarios por diversos autores (Mexico: Fondo de Cultural Económica; Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, 1991), 19 [9r.].

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xiuhatlapalli.

the leaf of an herb or a plant (see Molina)

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xiuhatlatl.

Orthographic Variants: 
xiuatlatl, xiuhatlatli

a blue dart thrower

(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), 3.

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xiuhcahua.

Orthographic Variants: 
xiuhcaua

to leave a piece of land fallow, to let the weeds grow (see Molina)

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xiuhcahualli.

ʃiwkɑːwɑːlli
Orthographic Variants: 
xiuhcāhuālli

stubble (see Karttunen)

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xiuhcalihui.

Orthographic Variants: 
xiuhcaliui

to be pale from fear or sickness (see Molina)

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xiuhcalihuiliztli.

Orthographic Variants: 
xiuhcaliuiliztli

greenness or freshness of the meadow (see Molina)

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xiuhcalli.

ʃiwkɑlli

a bower; can refer to a building covered with bowers or branches (see Karttunen); possibly also a house or building covered with green or blue materials, possibly turquoise? (see below)

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xiuhcalli.

an old or large house.
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xiuhcaltic.

something very green and fresh; or, one who is pale from fear or from sickness (see Molina)

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xiuhcaltiliztli.

greenness or lushness, freshness of the meadow (see Molina)

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xiuhcamac.

ʃiwkɑmɑk

a grassy place (see Karttunen)

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xiuhcamotli.

ʃiwkɑmohtɬi
Orthographic Variants: 
xiuhcamohtli

sweet potato greens (see Karttunen)

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Xiuhcanahualtzin.

a daughter of Huehue Tezozomoctli and Tzihuacxochitzin (of Malinalco), she married her nephew, a ruler of Tlatelolco named Tlacateotzin; this Tlacateotzin also had another wife named Xiuhtomiyauhtzin

(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, 110–111, 112–113.

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xiuhchimalli.

a shield with a turquoise mosaic design (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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xiuhchimalli.

a war shield decorated with turquoise stones

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xiuhcoatl.

a device serving as an emblem (see attestations), also recalled as the name (Xiuhcoatl) of a serpent with special powers

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xiuhcocolin.

a medicinal shrub

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xiuhcoyoltzitzilica.

ʃiwkoyoltsitsilikɑ

to tinkle like turquoise bells (see Karttunen)

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