Climate

Question 1

rain cloud (see Karttunen) {CN}

Answer 1

ahuachpoctli

Question 2

to begin to rain hard (see Karttunen) {CN}

Answer 2

ahuachtelahui

Question 3

to rain lightly (see Karttunen) {CN}

Answer 3

ahuachtzitzicuica

Question 4

to drizzle, to rain lightly; for it to be misting or sprinkling (see Molina) {CN}

Answer 4

ahuatzetzelihui

Question 5

to rain endlessly (see Molina) {CN}

Answer 5

aoc onquiza in quiahuitl

Question 6

it is still raining, the rain is not letting up (see Molina) {CN}

Answer 6

aoc onquiza inquiahuitl

Question 7

a rainbow (see Molina) {CN}

Answer 7

ayauhcozamalotl

Question 8

for it to be cold, as in the weather (see Molina) {CN}

Answer 8

cehuatoc

Question 9

throughout the summer, or dry season (see Molina) {CN}

Answer 9

centonal

Question 10

for rain to patter down in big drops, to sprinkle (see Karttunen) {CN}

Answer 10

chachapaca

Question 11

to have big droplets fall when it rains (see Molina); for rain to sprinkle, to patter in large drops (see Karttunen) {CN}

Answer 11

chachapani

Question 12

to protect myself from the sun and rain with a kind of shield (see Molina; this example is given in the first person singular) {CN}

Answer 12

chimaltitlan nicalaqui

Question 13

to be annoyed, or for one’s hair to stand on end owing to very cold weather (see Molina) {CN}

Answer 13

cuazonehua

Question 14

to shelter, or save something from the wind; to shelter oneself from the wind; or, to cover someone up to protect that person from the wind (see Molina) {CN}

Answer 14

ecatzacuilia

Question 15

for a storm to occur at sea (see Molina) {CN}

Answer 15

ehecahuilo

Question 16

for a storm to occur at sea; literally, for a storm to come upon us (see Molina) {CN}

Answer 16

ehecatl topan moquetza

Question 17

to be really hot (weather) (see Molina) {CN}

Answer 17

iuhqui comic

Question 18

to be very hot (weather) (see Molina) {CN}

Answer 18

iuhquin temazcalco

Question 19

to rain strongly (see Molina) {CN}

Answer 19

iuhquin xicaltica tlanoquilo

Question 20

to protect or shelter from the rain, or to hide (see Molina) {CN}

Answer 20

iyyana

Question 21

for the ocean to boil and be disturbed with a storm (see Molina) {CN}

Answer 21

macomana

Question 22

mist, drizzle (see Karttunen) {CN}

Answer 22

mixa

Question 23

wind and drizzle (see Karttunen) {CN}

Answer 23

mixaehecatl

Question 24

sparse clouds (see Molina) {CN}

Answer 24

mixayahuitl

Question 25

for fog or clouds to lift (see Karttunen) {CN}

Answer 25

mixhuaqui

Question 26

for clouds to build up (see Karttunen) {CN}

Answer 26

mixmoloni

Question 27

to drizzle (see Karttunen) {CN}

Answer 27

mixquiyahui

Question 28

to drizzle (see Karttunen) {CN}

Answer 28

mixteteica

Question 29

an abundance of clouds (see Karttunen) {CN}

Answer 29

mixtla

Question 30

a place where one hides when it rains (see Molina) {CN}

Answer 30

neyanaloyan

Question 31

to rain ceaselessly (see Molina) {CN}

Answer 31

ocemmoman yn quiyahuitl

Question 32

to mist, to sprinkle, or for snow to fall (see Molina) {CN}

Answer 32

pixahui

Question 33

to put oneself where it is raining (see Molina; the example is given in the first person singular) {CN}

Answer 33

quiauhyatla ninoquetza

Question 34

a southwest wind, or a wind that brings the rain (see Molina) {CN}

Answer 34

quiauhyo ehecatl

Question 35

a rainstorm with wind (See Karttunen) {CN}

Answer 35

quiyahuaehecatl

Question 36

the rainy season (see Karttunen) {CN}

Answer 36

quiyahuatla

Question 37

to rain

[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}

Answer 37

quiyahui

Question 38

to take shelter from the rain (See Karttunen) {CN}

Answer 38

quiyauhmanahuia

Question 39

to rain hard, to pour (See Karttunen) {CN}

Answer 39

telahui

Question 40

heavy rainstorm, deluge (see Karttunen) {CN}

Answer 40

tetzauhquiyahuitl

Question 41

to rain heavily; or, for a cloth to become thick and tightly packed (see Molina) {CN}

Answer 41

tilahua

Question 42

to be calm and clear (weather) (see Molina) {CN}

Answer 42

tlachipahuatimani

Question 43

it sprinkled (rained)

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

Answer 43

tlacuilolquiyauh

Question 44

to rain heavily (see Molina) {CN}

Answer 44

tlaelquiahui

Question 45

a domain governed by the rain deity, Tlaloc; an earthly paradise

[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), 35.] {CN}

Answer 45

Tlalocan

Question 46

deities, associated with rain and with Tlaloc, the deity of rain and celestial waters

[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), 35.] {CN}

Answer 46

Tlaloque

Question 47

to rain gently for a long time (see Karttunen and Molina) {CN}

Answer 47

tlapayahui

Question 48

a heavy rain (see attestations) {CN}

Answer 48

tlapayahuitl

Question 49

to rain (see Karttunen) {CN}

Answer 49

tlapiciloa

Question 50

for the rains to end, for the weather to clear (see Karttunen) {CN}

Answer 50

tlaquiza

Question 51

to be mild and calm weather (see Molina) {CN}

Answer 51

tlayamania

Question 52

to rain heavily (see Molina) {CN}

Answer 52

tlayelquiahui

Question 53

to rain heavily (see Molina) {CN}

Answer 53

tlayeltilahua

Question 54

it sprinkled (rained)

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

Answer 54

tlazoquiyauh

Question 55

to be warm, for the sun to shine (see Karttunen and Molina); for it to be hot or sunny (see Lockhart and Molina); or, to prosper (see Launey) {CN}

Answer 55

tona

Question 56

to thunder, to make a loud cracking noise (see Karttunen); for there to be detonations of fireworks (see Zapata y Mendoza) {CN}

Answer 56

totopoca

Question 57

to be hot, to be burning with hunger (see Karttunen) {CN}

Answer 57

xiuhtlatla

Question 58

to improve, or clarify the weather (see Molina) {CN}

Answer 58

yetlacualcanti

Question 59

the weather becomes clearer, there is prosperity after the tempest (see Molina) {CN}

Answer 59

yetlayecanti