Family Flashcards by Yan Garcia

elder brother; leader of youths (see Karttunen); also, a constable (see Sahagiºn) {CN}

achcauhtli

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great-grandfather, ancestor (see Karttunen) {CN}

achcolli

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an unusual word meaning great-grandmother {CN}

achpilli

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for couples to separate or leave each other many times; or for some people to pass others on the road (see Molina) {CN}

cacahua

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to leave something for a relative (nic.); to leave for oneself something from a group of things being distributed to others (nicno.) (see Molina) {CN}

cahuia

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the [leading] woman in the house (see attestations) {CN}

caliticcihuatl

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a resident, inhabitant, occupant

(ca. 1540, Cuernavaca)
[Fuente: Ismael Diaz Cadena, “Libro de tributos del Marquesado del Valle. Texto en espai±ol y ni¡huatl, “ Biblioteca Nacional de Antropologia e Historia, Cuadernos de la Biblioteca, Serie Investigacion no. 5, pp. 12, 54.] {CN}

callacatl

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occupant, inhabitant, resident

calnenqui

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married to 
 (a loanword from Spanish, casado, combined with the Nahuatl ica, through it, etc.)

[Fuente: Caterina Pizzigoni, ed., Testaments of Toluca (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Center Publications, 2007), 34.] {CN}

casado ica

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to leave one’s memory statement, or to make a testament (see Molina) {CN}

cauhtia

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the children of a woman or of a womb, even when born individually (see Molina) {CN}

cemitime

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a relative, brother or sister (see Molina) {CN}

cetlacayo

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one of the names given to a little baby girl whose mother had died in childbirth

(central Mexico, sixteenth century)
[Fuente: Fr. Bernardino de Sahagiºn, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 6 – Rhetoric and Moral Philosophy, No. 14, Part 7, 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, 1961), chapter 29.] {CN}

Chamotzin

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to wean a child (see Molina) {CN}

chichihualcahualtia

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widow (see Karttunen) {CN}

cihuacahualli

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â€œwoman-houseâ€ (possibly a common room) – probably a civil category of property, possibly part of a woman’s dowry

[Fuente: S. L. Cline, Colonial Culhuacan, 1580-1600: A Social History of an Aztec Town (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1986), 235. See also Sarah Cline, “The Testaments of Culhuacan, “ in James Lockhart, Lisa Sousa, and Stephanie Wood, eds., Sources and Methods for the Study of Postconquest Mesoamerican Ethnohistory (Eugene, OR: Wired Humanities Project, e-book, 2007.] {CN}

cihuacalli

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to get married (speaking of a man) (see Molina) {CN}

cihuahuatia

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female cousin (see Karttunen) {CN}

cihuaicniuhtli

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daughter-in-law

[Fuente: 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), 215.] {CN}

cihuamon

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to take a daughter-in-law, seeing one’s son married (see Molina) {CN}

cihuamontia

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woman gifts {CN}

cihuanemactli

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a girl, a baby girl (see Sahagiºn, attestations) {CN}

cihuapiltontli

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female little creature; a girl, a baby girl (see Vidas y bienes) {CN}

cihuatlachihualli

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to seek or gain a woman for marriage (see Sahagiºn) {CN}

cihuatlani

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grandfather, ancestor(s), forebear(s) (see Karttunen, Lockhart, and attestations) {CN}

colli

the father of one's child-in-law, one's fellow father-in-law (a loanword from Spanish) [Fuente: Caterina Pizzigoni, ed., Testaments of Toluca (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Center Publications, 2007), 248.] {CN}

consuegro

grandchild (generally female child) {CN}

cuhtzintli

brother-in-law | (a loanword from Spanish) {CN}

cui±ado

a wife; also, when plural, can mean handcuffs | (a loanword from Spanish) {CN}

esposa

sister (a loanword from Spanish) [Fuente: 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), 217.] {CN}

hermana

brother | (a loanword from Spanish) {CN}

hermano

to raise, bring up someone (such as children); to grow, grow up; to gain in strength [Fuente: 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), 217.] {CN}

huapahua

patrimonial house {CN}

huehuecalli

the elders, seniors, old people (see attestations) {CN}

huehuetque

orphan | (a loanword from Spanish) {CN}

huerfano

younger brother (see Karttunen) {CN}

iccauhtli

bastard children, born outside of wedlock (see Molina) {CN}

ichtaca cocone

to give someone a hand, so that they might escape; to help someone get away (see Molina) {CN}

ichtacaquixtia

to make someone become a widow (see Molina) {CN}

icno oquichtilia

humble {CN}

icno-

to cause a woman to become a widow (see Molina) {CN}

icnocihuatilia

a widower (literally, unfortunate/orphaned man; with the added connotation of his being worthy of compassion) (see Molina) {CN}

icnooquichtli

to become an orphan (see Molina) {CN}

icnopiltia

to make someone an orphan or poor (see Molina) {CN}

icnopiltilia

big brother (ca. 1540, Cuernavaca) [Fuente: Ismael Diaz Cadena, "Libro de tributos del Marquesado del Valle. Texto en espai±ol y ni¡huatl, " Biblioteca Nacional de Antropologia e Historia, Cuadernos de la Biblioteca, Serie Investigacion no. 5, pp. 11, 52.] {CN}

icpol

my younger brother, or sister (said by an older sister) (see Molina) {CN}

icuh

younger sister, cousin {CN}

icutli

fellow parent-in-law (consuegro) [Fuente: Robert Haskett and Stephanie Wood's notes from Nahuatl sessions with James Lockhart and subsequent research.] {CN}

ihuexiuh

to sip something (see Molina); to sip, suck, drink something (see Karttunen) {CN}

iltequi

an heir (see Molina) {CN}

itechcahualotiuh

to raise (as in a child), to educate (see Molina, Karttunen, and Lockhart) {CN}

izcaltia

mother | (a loanword from Spanish) {CN}

madre

to get married, or to join hands; to marry other people or join their hands (see Molina) {CN}

manepanoa

the boy is growing up (see Molina) {CN}

mantiuh

matrimony, marriage | (a loanword from Spanish) {CN}

matrimonio

child of a slave (central Mexico, sixteenth century) [Fuente: Fr. Bernardino de Sahagiºn, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 10 -- The People, No. 14, Part 11, 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, 1961), 2.] {CN}

mecaconetl

mecapilli

an orphan; a stepdaughter (see Karttunen) {CN}

miccacahualli

all of the same family; brothers and sisters [Fuente: Robert Haskett and Stephanie Wood's notes from Nahuatl sessions with James Lockhart and subsequent research.] {CN}

mochyehua

father-in-law [Fuente: Robert Haskett and Stephanie Wood's notes from Nahuatl sessions with James Lockhart and subsequent research.] {CN}

montatzia

son-in-law, daughter-in-law (see Karttunen) {CN}

montiqui

to acquire a man [husband] [Fuente: Sarah Cline, "The Book of Tributes: The Cuernavaca-region Censuses, " in James Lockhart, Lisa Sousa, and Stephanie Wood, eds., Sources and Methods for the Study of Postconquest Mesoamerican Ethnohistory (Eugene, OR: Wired Humanities Project, e-book, 2007.] {CN}

moquichtia

marriage (see Karttunen) {CN}

namictilli

married life (see Molina) {CN}

nenamictiliz nemiliztli

marriage (see Karttunen) {CN}

nenamictiloyo

twin (see Karttunen) {CN}

nenetz

for family members to squabble {CN}

netech mahua

to contend with and mistreat people within a kin group or family (see Molina) {CN}

netechhuia

marriage (see Karttunen) {CN}

nezohuatiloyotl

a child; or, a boy like me (see Molina) {CN}

nopilpo

a married woman, a person with a man [Fuente: 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), 228.] {CN}

oquichhua

people who have children, parents (see Molina) {CN}

pilhuaque

to conceive, engender children (see Molina and Karttunen); also, to adopt a child, take in a child to raise, be a godfather for a child (see Molina); to make a woman pregnant (see attestations) {CN}

pilhuatia

a beloved child [Fuente: Daniel Garrison Brinton, Ancient Nahuatl Poetry: Containing the Nahuatl Text of XXVII Ancient Mexican Poems (1877), 161.] {CN}

pilihuitl

nephew; or, niece (of a woman) (see attestations) {CN}

pilotl

taking out the children (a ceremony) [Fuente: Fray Bernardino de Sahagiºn, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 78.] {CN}

pilquixtiliztli

small child, little boy (See Karttunen) {CN}

pipilanconetl

children (see Molina) {CN}

pipiltotontin

cousin | (a loanword from Spanish) {CN}

primo

for a parent to have great love for the child (a metaphor) (see Molina) {CN}

quetzalteuh cozcateuh ipan nimitzmati

nephew, niece | (a loanword from Spanish) {CN}

sobrino / sobrina

maize dough, dust, ground meal; or, wheat flour; also, a man's brother-in-law {CN}

tÄ“xtli

grandfather (See Karttunen) {CN}

tatahuei

fatherhood [Fuente: 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), 232.] {CN}

tayotl

older brother or cousin [Fuente: Beyond the Codices. eds. Aurthur J. O. Anderson, Frances Berdan, and James Lockhart. Berkeley, O.C. Press: 1976, p24.] {CN}

teachcauh

aunt; the sister of one's mother or father (see Molina) {CN}

teahui

one's grandmother, someone's grandmother (see Sahagiºn) {CN}

tecitli

(unpossessed sing., -huanyolqui) someone's relatives, bilateral kin unit [Fuente: Susan Kellogg, Law and the Transformation of Aztec Culture, 1500-1700 (Norman and London: The University of Oklahoma Press, 1995), 226.] {CN}

tehuanyolque

great-grandmother (See Karttunen) {CN}

tehueinana

great-grandfather (See Karttunen) {CN}

tehueitata

younger sister {CN}

teica

daughter of someone (see Molina) {CN}

teichpuch

offspring (see Karttunen); or, a type of noble (whether female or male) [Fuente: Fr. Bernardino de Sahagiºn, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 10 -- The People, No. 14, Part 11, 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, 1961), 47.] {CN}

teizti

a worn-out youth (see attestations) {CN}

telpozolli

dead son-in-law {CN}

temicamo

son-in-law whose wife (the true daughter) has died [Fuente: Robert Haskett and Stephanie Wood's notes from Nahuatl sessions with James Lockhart and subsequent research.] {CN}

temiccamo

iron for branding livestock, or for branding slaves or those who have been married twice (see Molina) {CN}

tepoztlamachiotiloni

offspring (see Karttunen); or, a type of noble, male or female (see Sahagiºn) [Fuente: Fr. Bernardino de Sahagiºn, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 10 -- The People, No. 14, Part 11, 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, 1961), 47.] {CN}

tetzon

someone firstborn (see Karttunen) {CN}

teyacapantli

for all to be of the same parentage; or, of one nation or family (see Molina) {CN}

ticemehua

uncle | (a loanword from Spanish) {CN}

tio

to raise children or to be a tutor for children (see Molina and Karttunen); possibly also to do the work of a governess or nanny {CN}

tlacahuapahua

to have a blood relationship with [Fuente: Robert Haskett and Stephanie Wood's notes from Nahuatl sessions with James Lockhart and subsequent research.] {CN}

tlacamecayotica

a baby that is still breastfeeding (see Vidas y bienes) {CN}

tlachichitiltzintli

constable stick [Fuente: Fray Bernardino de Sahagiºn, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 197.] {CN}

tlacotzin achcauhtli

to raise something for someone (see Karttunen) {CN}

tlecahuilia

widower, widow | (a loanword from Spanish) {CN}

viudo, viuda

youngest child (see Karttunen); also, used as a personal name for females {CN}

Xoco

youngest child (see Karttunen) {CN}

xoxocotzin

a bride (see Molina) {CN}

yancuican mocchoti

a groom, someone newly taking a bride (see Molina) {CN}

yancuican mocihuahuati

my firstborn boy or girl (see Molina) {CN}

yancuiyo

bosom friend (see Karttunen) {CN}

yolicniuhtli

single, without siblings (see Karttunen) {CN}

yotzin

to belong to someone else or be foreign (see Molina) {CN}

yuca

a single man or woman; someone who has yet to marry (see Molina) {CN}

zan iuh nemi

to be a single man or a single woman, i.e. unmarried {CN}

zan iuh ninemi

to be unmarried, single (male or female) {CN}

zaniuhninemi

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