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Letter X: Displaying 61 - 80 of 1049

xalpicilli.

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Xaltelolco.

"At Sand Hill," the older name for Tlatelolco (see our entry for Tlatelolco; personal communication, Gordon Whittaker)

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xaltemalacatl.

ʃɑːltemɑlɑkɑtɬ

a stone tool for grinding (see Molina)

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Xaltemoctzin.

a son of Huehue Tezozomoctli and Tzihuacxochitzin (of Malinalco), he ruled in Azcapotzalco; an alternative name for him was Ceahuatzin; he fathered Tzihuacxochitzin (a daughter he named for his mother) who lived in Azcapotzalco and who eventually married her brother, Tlacateotzin

(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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xaltetipan.

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xaltetl.

ʃɑːltetɬ
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xaltetla.

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xaltocamecatl.

ʃɑːltokɑmeːkɑtɬ
Orthographic Variants: 
xāltocamēcatl

someone from Xaltocan (see Karttunen)

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Xaltocan.

ʃɑːltokɑːn
Orthographic Variants: 
xāltocān

an ancient city-state in the Valley of Mexico, located in the center of the lake of the same name; also the name of a municipality in the modern state of Tlaxcala (sometimes spelled Jaltocán)

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xaltomatl.

ʃɑːltomɑtɬ

a medicinal plant used for treating fever

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), 21 [10v.].

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xaltotopoca.

ʃɑːltohtopokɑ
Orthographic Variants: 
xāltohtopoca

for something to be crunchy, to have sand in it (see Karttunen)

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xaltozan.

ʃɑːltosɑn

a type of rat or mouse (see Molina)

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xalxocotl.

ʃɑːlʃokotɬ
Orthographic Variants: 
sasocotl

a guava fruit

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xamacalli.

ʃɑmɑːkɑlli

a mold for making adobe bricks (see Molina)

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xamani.

ʃɑmɑːni

to be shattered, disintegrate

Caterina Pizzigoni, ed., Testaments of Toluca (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Center Publications, 2007), 41.

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xamāni.

1. for falling water to make it’s sound. 2. for a snake to make a noise by moving along the ground in the forest.
# 1. Se escucha cuando viene cayendo. “cuando mi abuela estaba en el arroyo lavando la ropa escuchó como venia cayendo el agua agarro su ropa y se regreso a su casa”. 2. se escucha cuando las personas hablan juntas y cuando van rapido en el camino. “los señores se juntan y se enojan después nada mas se escucha porque no le gusta lo que les dice elm presidente”.
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xamania.

ʃɑmɑːniɑː

to crack a head open or to break a gourd vessel (see Molina)

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xamāniā.

to grind nixtamal on a grinding stone or in a mill.
A. Persona pasa en el molino el nixtamal porque quiere que se haga masa. “Martha cuando echa tortillas siempre hace masa en el molino porque son muchos hijos.” B. Marjear.
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xamāniliā.

to grind s.o.’s nixtamal.
# una persona quiebra muchas veces el nixtamal de otra porque quiere hacer masa. “víctor le muele el nixtamal a su mamá porque su molino tiene mucha fuerza”.
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xamanilteca.

ʃɑmɑːniːlteːkɑ
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