Mining

Question 1

tin or any shiny white metal {CN}

Answer 1

amuchitl

Question 2

a special red and white headdress with Quetzal feathers reserved for the tlahtoani {CN}

Answer 2

aztaxilotl

Question 3

to make metal ring or to vibrate with sound (see Molina) {CN}

Answer 3

calani

Question 4

to crack one’s knuckles when stretching them out {CN}

Answer 4

capani

Question 5

a necklace of green stones; also, a goddess

[Fuente: Fray Bernardino de Sahagiºn, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 206.] {CN}

Answer 5

chalchiuhcozcatl

Question 6

green stone lip plug

[Fuente: Fray Bernardino de Sahagiºn, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 206.] {CN}

Answer 6

chalchiuhtentetl

Question 7

green stone(s) (see Sahagiºn) {CN}

Answer 7

chalchiuhtetl

Question 8

in the manner of precious green stones (see Karttunen) {CN}

Answer 8

chalchiuhteuh

Question 9

a necklace of snail shells

[Fuente: Justyna Olko, Turquoise Diadems and Staffs of Office: Elite Costume and Insignia of Power in Aztec and Early Colonial Mexico (Warsaw: Polish Society for Latin American Studies and Centre for Studies on the Classical Tradition, University of Warsaw, 2005), 177.] {CN}

Answer 9

chipolcozcatl

Question 10

head piece, cap (see attestations) {CN}

Answer 10

copilli

Question 11

to curl someone’s hair (see Molina) {CN}

Answer 11

cuacocolochoa

Question 12

a person with curled hair (see Molina) {CN}

Answer 12

cuacocolochtic

Question 13

to curl someone’s hair (see Molina) {CN}

Answer 13

cuacocototzoa

Question 14

a person with curled hair (see Molina) {CN}

Answer 14

cuacocototztic

Question 15

to curl another’s hair (see Molina) {CN}

Answer 15

cuacototzoa

Question 16

a wide, golden necklace {CN}

Answer 16

cuztic teocuitla cuzcapetlatl

Question 17

a piece of gold {CN}

Answer 17

cuztic teocuitla tlatemantli

Question 18

a golden gem {CN}

Answer 18

cuztic teocuitlacuzcatl

Question 19

a golden cup (see Molina) {CN}

Answer 19

cuztic teocuitlate comatl

Question 20

a grain of gold (see Molina) {CN}

Answer 20

cuztic teocuitlaxaltetl

Question 21

to make garlands for the head (see Molina) {CN}

Answer 21

icpac xochichihua

Question 22

to put on garlands on the head; to put garlands on another’s head (see Molina) {CN}

Answer 22

icpacxochitia

Question 23

a beautiful rock that is put in a ring, etc. (see Molina) {CN}

Answer 23

ixyollo cuzcatl

Question 24

to polish silver (see Molina) {CN}

Answer 24

iztac teocuitlachipahua

Question 25

to silver-plate something (see Molina) {CN}

Answer 25

iztac teocuitlahuia

Question 26

silver dross, silver dregs, what is left over from mining silver (see Molina) {CN}

Answer 26

iztac teocuitlatl ycuitl

Question 27

silver dross, dregs, what is left over from mining silver (see Molina) {CN}

Answer 27

iztac teocuitlatl ytlaillo

Question 28

silver dross (see Molina) {CN}

Answer 28

iztac teocuitlatl yzoquio

Question 29

to silver-plate something (see Molina) {CN}

Answer 29

iztac teocuitlayotia

Question 30

polished silver (see Molina) {CN}

Answer 30

iztacteocuitlachipahualli

Question 31

key (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), 223.] {CN}

Answer 31

llave

Question 32

to compose oneself, to get fixed up (see Molina) {CN}

Answer 32

mahuichichihua

Question 33

like a bracelet [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), 51.] {CN}

Answer 33

maquiztic

Question 34

earring (see Karttunen) {CN}

Answer 34

nacaztlapilolli

Question 35

gold | (a loanword from Spanish) {CN}

Answer 35

oro

Question 36

leg bells worn by warriors; also seen as a name (ca. 1582, central Mexico) [Fuente: John Bierhorst, Ballads of the Lords of New Spain (Austin: University of Texas Press, UTDigital, 2009), 41; http://utdi.org/book/index.php?page=songs.php] {CN}

Answer 36

oyohualli

Question 37

to put a golden necklace or like around the neck (see Molina) {CN}

Answer 37

quechcozcatia

Question 38

quetzal feather arm band [Fuente: Fray Bernardino de Sahagiºn, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 206.] {CN}

Answer 38

quetzalmacopili

Question 39

to shine with precious stones and gems and other precious items that one might be adorned with (see Molina) {CN}

Answer 39

quetzaltica chalchiuhtica nitlanextia

Question 40

necklace of gold beads and small seashells [Fuente: Fray Bernardino de Sahagiºn, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997). 206.] {CN}

Answer 40

teocuitlachipolcozcatl

Question 41

golden band for the calf of the leg [Fuente: Fray Bernardino de Sahagiºn, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 206.] {CN}

Answer 41

teocuitlacotzehuatl

Question 42

golden forehead rosette [Fuente: Justyna Olko, Turquoise Diadems and Staffs of Office: Elite Costume and Insignia of Power in Aztec and Early Colonial Mexico (Warsaw: Polish Society for Latin American Studies and Centre for Studies on the Classical Tradition, University of Warsaw, 2005), 137.] {CN}

Answer 42

teocuitlaixcuaamatl

Question 43

hand cast in gold [Fuente: Fray Bernardino de Sahagiºn, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 206.] {CN}

Answer 43

teocuitlamatlepitzli

Question 44

golden lip pendant [Fuente: Fray Bernardino de Sahagiºn, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 206.] {CN}

Answer 44

teocuitlatepiloli

Question 45

golden nose plate [Fuente: Fray Bernardino de Sahagiºn, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 206.] {CN}

Answer 45

teocuitlayacacuaztli

Question 46

golden mountain-shaped miter [Fuente: Justyna Olko, Turquoise Diadems and Staffs of Office: Elite Costume and Insignia of Power in Aztec and Early Colonial Mexico (Warsaw: Polish Society for Latin American Studies and Centre for Studies on the Classical Tradition, University of Warsaw, 2005), 137.] {CN}

Answer 46

tepeyoteocuitlatl

Question 47

a metal dagger (see Molina) {CN}

Answer 47

tepoz teixilihuanito

Question 48

to clench someone (see Molina) {CN}

Answer 48

tepozcacalohuia

Question 49

earring (see Karttunen) {CN}

Answer 49

tepozcuahuitl

Question 50

a sheet of tin, or the like (see Molina) {CN}

Answer 50

tepozehuatl

Question 51

to grasp or wield a sword (see Molina); the root word here is the club that had embedded obsidian blades that came to be called the macana in Spanish (from macquahuitl in Nahuatl), but here Molina equates the term with sword, apparently because of the reference to metal (tepoztli) {CN}

Answer 51

tepozmaccuauhtzitzquia

Question 52

to become hard like iron (see Molina) {CN}

Answer 52

tepoztia

Question 53

a prominent altepetl in what is now the state of Morelos, Mexico, "place of copper" [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), 234.] {CN}

Answer 53

Tepoztlan

Question 54

golden ear plugs [Fuente: Fray Bernardino de Sahagiºn, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 206.] {CN}

Answer 54

teucuiltlanacochtli

Question 55

copper bells [Fuente: Daniel Garrison Brinton, Ancient Nahuatl Poetry: Containing the Nahuatl Text of XXVII Ancient Mexican Poems (1887), 25.] {CN}

Answer 55

tzilinilli

Question 56

rattle(s), jingle(s); bell(s); perhaps also a type of cloak (central Mexico, sixteenth century) [Fuente: R. Joe Campbell, Florentine Codex Vocabulary, 1997; http://www2.potsdam.edu/schwaljf/Nahuatl/florent.txt] {CN}

Answer 56

tzitzilli

Question 57

piece of jewelry (see Karttunen) {CN}

Answer 57

xopochco

Question 58

very thin nose plug (literally, nose arrow) (Olko); or, a nose rod (Sahagiºn) [Fuente: Justyna Olko, Turquoise Diadems and Staffs of Office: Elite Costume and Insignia of Power in Aztec and Early Colonial Mexico (Warsaw: Polish Society for Latin American Studies and Centre for Studies on the Classical Tradition, University of Warsaw, 2005), 167–168.] {CN}

Answer 58

yacamitl

Question 59

a special type of necklace, presented to girls when they were entering the calmecac (see attestations) {CN}

Answer 59

yacualli

Question 60

to arrange, prepare, order oneself, someone, something (see Karttunen) {CN}

Answer 60

yectlalia