Architecture

Question 1

to make mud to build walls, or to make bricks, etc. (see Molina) {CN}

Answer 1

zoquichihua

Question 2

thatched house (see Karttunen) {CN}

Answer 2

zacalli

Question 3

three large room divisions of a house

[Fuente: Robert Haskett and Stephanie Wood’s notes from Nahuatl sessions with James Lockhart and subsequent research.] {CN}

Answer 3

yetequiza

Question 4

three large room divisions of a house {CN}

Answer 4

yetemani

Question 5

to settle the building (see Molina) {CN}

Answer 5

yeeticihui

Question 6

wattles (of a turkey) (see Karttunen) {CN}

Answer 6

yacaxitolcuitlatl

Question 7

to cause all of something (such as a wall) to crumble (see Karttunen) {CN}

Answer 7

xixititza

Question 8

a hut with a pointed roof

(Tlaxcala, 1662–1692)
[Fuente: Juan Buenaventura Zapata y Mendoza, Historia cronologica de la Noble Ciudad de Tlaxcala, transcripcion paleogri¡fica, traduccion, presentacion y notas por Luis Reyes Garci­a y Andrea Marti­nez Baracs (Tlaxcala and Mexico City: Universidad Autonoma de Tlaxcala, Secretari­a de Extension Universitaria y Difusion Cultural, y Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropologi­a Social, 1995), 484–485.] {CN}

Answer 8

xacalcuatehuitzocalco

Question 9

beam

(a loanword from Spanish) {CN}

Answer 9

viga

Question 10

window {CN}

Answer 10

ventana

Question 11

passageway, opening between things (see Karttunen) {CN}

Answer 11

tzalantli

Question 12

arch (structure) (see Karttunen) {CN}

Answer 12

tolcalli

Question 13

a plastered house {CN}

Answer 13

tlaquilcalli

Question 14

upper room or flat-roofed house

[Fuente: Beyond the Codices, eds. Arthur J.O. Anderson, Frances Berdan, and James Lockhart (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center, 1976), 56, note 7.] {CN}

Answer 14

tlapancalli

Question 15

some type of house, earthen? (see the attestations) {CN}

Answer 15

tlapacalli

Question 16

a dining space (see Simeon) {CN}

Answer 16

tlacuayan

Question 17

a living room, room, chambers, lodging (see Alvarado Tezozomoc) {CN}

Answer 17

tlacochcalli

Question 18

a place name, apparently referring to Cholula; also (or simultaneously) referring to the pyramid at Cholula (see tlachihualtepetl) (see attestations) {CN}

Answer 18

Tlachihualtepetl icatcan

Question 19

a human-made hill or mountain; i.e. pyramid {CN}

Answer 19

tlachihualtepetl

Question 20

a garden wall (?) (see Molina) {CN}

Answer 20

tlaatzotzon tepantli

Question 21

porous volcanic rock, used for buildings and their foundations

[Fuente: Louise M. Burkhart, Before Guadalupe: The Virgin Mary in Early Colonial Nahuatl Literature, Institute for Mesoamerican Studies Monograph 13 (Albany: University at Albany, 2001), 58.] {CN}

Answer 21

tetzontli

Question 22

to begin to build the wall on the foundation (see Molina) {CN}

Answer 22

tetzonehua

Question 23

house with stone walls (See Karttunen) {CN}

Answer 23

tepanchantli

Question 24

to put stucco on something (see Molina) {CN}

Answer 24

tenexhuia

Question 25

people’s houses {CN}

Answer 25

techachan

Question 26

floor(s), flooring, pavement (interior); the ground, soil, earth, surface (exterior)
(a loanword from Spanish) {CN}

Answer 26

suelo

Question 27

entrance (See Karttunen) {CN}

Answer 27

quiyahuatentli

Question 28

at the door, outside (See Karttunen) {CN}

Answer 28

quiyahuatempan

Question 29

like a passageway

(sixteenth century, central Mexico)
[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), 132.] {CN}

Answer 29

quiquiztic

Question 30

at the entryway or exit; outside the house (see Molina and attestations) {CN}

Answer 30

quiahuac

Question 31

a bridge
 (a loanword from Spanish) {CN}

Answer 31

puente

Question 32

a wicket, small door, gate, shutter

(a loanword from Spanish) {CN}

Answer 32

postigo

Question 33

archways, arcaded passageways, often around the main square of towns
(a loanword from Spanish) {CN}

Answer 33

portales

Question 34

a pillar; or, a large basin for a fountain

(a loanword from Spanish) {CN}

Answer 34

pilar

Question 35

a patio
 (a loanword from Spanish) {CN}

Answer 35

patio

Question 36

palace

(a loanword from Spanish) {CN}

Answer 36

palacio

Question 37

a false door or entryway to a house (see Molina) {CN}

Answer 37

opochquiahuatentli

Question 38

a false door or entryway to a house (see Molina) {CN}

Answer 38

opochquiahuatenco

Question 39

a place where people settle; also, a guest house {CN}

Answer 39

netlaliloyan

Question 40

an inn, a place of lodging for travelers

(a loanword from Spanish) {CN}

Answer 40

meson

Question 41

a manger or stall, or a range of mangers (see Molina) {CN}

Answer 41

mazatlacualtiloyan

Question 42

entrance hall, or house entrance (see Molina) {CN}

Answer 42

iquiahua tenyoc

Question 43

entrance hall, or the entry of a house (see Molina) {CN}

Answer 43

icalaquiayoc

Question 44

to put flooring down upon beams (see Molina) {CN}

Answer 44

huapaltzaccayotia

Question 45

to put flooring down upon beams (see Molina) {CN}

Answer 45

huapaltzaccayotema

Question 46

stair {CN}

Answer 46

escalera

Question 47

wooden latticework (see attestations) {CN}

Answer 47

cuauhtlachayalli

Question 48

a wooden bridge (?) {CN}

Answer 48

cuauhpatl

Question 49

a wooden structure; possibly the structure for the roof a church {CN}

Answer 49

cuapetlaxacalli

Question 50

kitchen

(a loanword from Spanish) {CN}

Answer 50

cocina

Question 51

foundation

(a loanword from Spanish) {CN}

Answer 51

cimiento

Question 52

to make a building with a good, strong foundation (see Molina) {CN}

Answer 52

chicahuacatlalia

Question 53

house of residence

[Fuente: Thelma Sullivan, Documentos Tlaxcaltecas del siglo XVI en lengua ni¡huatl (Mexico: Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, 1987), 40.] {CN}

Answer 53

chanyotl

Question 54

house; municipal council building

(a loanword from Spanish) {CN}

Answer 54

casa

Question 55

to put up walls for houses {CN}

Answer 55

calzaloa

Question 56

in front of the house

[Fuente: Robert Haskett and Stephanie Wood’s notes from Nahuatl sessions with James Lockhart and subsequent research.] {CN}

Answer 56

calyacac

Question 57

next to the house, together with the house (see Sullivan) {CN}

Answer 57

caltitech

Question 58

to make or build a house for oneself, or for another person (see Molina) {CN}

Answer 58

caltia

Question 59

the foundation of a house, or the walls (see Molina) {CN}

Answer 59

caltetzuntli

Question 60

outdoors; in the doorway of the house or building; at the edge of the house or building; at the doorway of the house or building; at the side of the building (see Karttunen and attestations) {CN}

Answer 60

caltenco

Question 61

to build a house, to raise it up (see Molina) {CN}

Answer 61

calquetzaliztli

Question 62

to build a house or raise it up (see Molina) {CN}

Answer 62

calquetza

Question 63

to build or construct houses (see Molina) {CN}

Answer 63

calmana

Question 64

a house of many turns (see Molina) {CN}

Answer 64

callohuicantli

Question 65

the entryway or front of the house (see Molina) {CN}

Answer 65

callixcuatl

Question 66

the front or front part of the house (see Molina) {CN}

Answer 66

callixcopa

Question 67

the door to a house (see Molina) {CN}

Answer 67

callixatl

Question 68

to look toward inside the house (see Molina) {CN}

Answer 68

calliticpa nontlachia

Question 69

toward inside the house (see Molina) {CN}

Answer 69

calliticpa

Question 70

adornments or furniture inside the house (see Molina) {CN}

Answer 70

calli tlatlatquitl

Question 71

street

(a loanword from Spanish) {CN}

Answer 71

calle

Question 72

inside the house (see Karttunen); inside the building (see attestations) {CN}

Answer 72

calitic

Question 73

a repair on a house (see Molina) {CN}

Answer 73

calchichiualiztli

Question 74

a house or place without protection, favor, support (see Molina) {CN}

Answer 74

calcehualco

Question 75

an abandoned house, unoccupied house (see Molina) {CN}

Answer 75

cacticac

Question 76

a balcony
 (a loanword from Spanish) {CN}

Answer 76

balcon

Question 77

arch

(a loanword from Spanish) {CN}

Answer 77

arco

Question 78

a chamber, a room in a house

(a loanword from Spanish) {CN}

Answer 78

aposento

Question 79

a house without chimney or fireplace (see Molina) {CN}

Answer 79

apochquiahuayucan