Money

Question 1

please accept your (pl.) payment (see Molina) {CN}

Answer 1

amotech aciz in amo tlaxtlahuil

Question 2

to make counterfeit cocoa beans (see Molina) {CN}

Answer 2

cacahuachichihua

Question 3

to reward, recompense something richly (see Molina) {CN}

Answer 3

cemacicanamictia

Question 4

to purchase one real’s worth of bread (or some other thing) {CN}

Answer 4

cetica niccohua

Question 5

to pay part of the debt, or to take something out of a building, or to discover someone else’s mistake {CN}

Answer 5

chicoquixtia

Question 6

to pay off a debt with something else, another valuable object (see Molina) {CN}

Answer 6

ic nitlapopoa icnixonexca

Question 7

from someone (often in a phrase with money); with someone’s help (often, God’s help) {CN}

Answer 7

ipaltzinco

Question 8

a discount of something that is owed, giving or paying something for another (see Molina) {CN}

Answer 8

ipam polihui

Question 9

to pay a debt with another debt (see Molina) {CN}

Answer 9

ipan nicpoloa

Question 10

to pay a debt with another debt (see Molina) {CN}

Answer 10

ipan nitlacalaquia

Question 11

to pay a debt with another debt (see Molina) {CN}

Answer 11

ipan nitlapoloa

Question 12

to pay a debt with another debt (see Molina) {CN}

Answer 12

ipan nitlapopoloa

Question 13

to find profit and benefit in the work that I do (see Molina) {CN}

Answer 13

itla itech niquitta

Question 14

to pay, to pay back; restore

[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), 222.] {CN}

Answer 14

ixtlahua

Question 15

for something to come into its own, be as it should be

[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), 222.] {CN}

Answer 15

ixtlahui

Question 16

to raise the price of something that is sold (see Molina) {CN}

Answer 16

macoquetza yn patiotl

Question 17

having good fortune, prosperous (see Molina) {CN}

Answer 17

muchi techuel mochihua

Question 18

having good fortune and prosperous (see Molina) {CN}

Answer 18

muchitech huel mochihuani

Question 19

to borrow or lend money with interest (see Molina) {CN}

Answer 19

necuiloa

Question 20

wealth

[Fuente: Thelma D. Sullivan, “Nahuatl Proverbs, Conundrums, and Metaphors, Collected by Sahagiºn, “ Estudios de Cultura Ni¡huatl 4 (1963), 128–129.]

riches, good fortune

[Fuente: Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 170.] {CN}

Answer 20

netlamachtilli

Question 21

something costly (See Karttunen) {CN}

Answer 21

patiyo

Question 22

to rise in price, to be expensive (See Karttunen) {CN}

Answer 22

patiyohua

Question 23

buy; pay something for something

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

Answer 23

patiyoti

Question 24

to raise the price of something (See Karttunen) {CN}

Answer 24

patiyotia

Question 25

to rise in price (See Karttunen) {CN}

Answer 25

patiyotiya

Question 26

a peso, a unit of money; weight (see attestations)

(a loanword from Spanish) {CN}

Answer 26

peso

Question 27

to sell a commodity at retail (see Molina) {CN}

Answer 27

pixauhcacahua

Question 28

to sell a commodity at retail (see Molina) {CN}

Answer 28

pixauhcanamaca

Question 29

in hock
(a loanword from Spanish)

[Fuente: Caterina Pizzigoni, ed., Testaments of Toluca (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Center Publications, 2007), 235.] {CN}

Answer 29

prenda

Question 30

how much does it cost? or, how much is it worth? (see Molina) {CN}

Answer 30

quentlazoti?

Question 31

a coin or a value amounting to one-eighth of a peso (noun); or, royal (adjective)
(loanwords from Spanish) {CN}

Answer 31

real

Question 32

the delivery or payment of money, or the like (see Molina) {CN}

Answer 32

teicneliliz amatlacuilolli

Question 33

to make oneself famous; to make someone else famous; to put a price on something that is to be sold {CN}

Answer 33

tenyotia

Question 34

to give money (see Molina) {CN}

Answer 34

teocuitlanemactia

Question 35

to borrow money against property (see Karttunen) {CN}

Answer 35

tetlanitoa

Question 36

to collect money (see example below) {CN}

Answer 36

tetominehua

Question 37

the act of buying many things (see Molina) {CN}

Answer 37

tlacocoaliztli

Question 38

one who buys some things (see Molina) {CN}

Answer 38

tlacocoani

Question 39

one who helps someone else and receives the same pay back (i.e. a person who loans another person money and gets paid back?) (see Molina) {CN}

Answer 39

tlamacoalli

Question 40

to borrow or rent something

[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), 237.]

to lend oneself to someone, to be in their presence

[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), 237.]

and see additional meanings in Molina and our additional entry for tlanehuia {CN}

Answer 40

tlanehuia

Question 41

one who assesses a price on what is to be sold (see Molina) {CN}

Answer 41

tlapatiomachiotiani

Question 42

the evaluation of something that is needing a price established (see Molina) {CN}

Answer 42

tlapatiomachiotiliztli

Question 43

something that has received an evaluation of its worth, its price (see Molina) {CN}

Answer 43

tlapatiomachiotilli

Question 44

the price of that which is purchased; in other words, the amount which is paid for that which is purchased (see Molina) {CN}

Answer 44

tlapatiyotl

Question 45

change (as in money) (see Karttunen) {CN}

Answer 45

tlapatlaloni

Question 46

to pay for something (see Karttunen) {CN}

Answer 46

tlaxtlahua

Question 47

to pay for the thing that one is purchasing, giving the money to the former owner (see Molina) {CN}

Answer 47

tlaxtlahuilia

Question 48

to charge a fine in money {CN}

Answer 48

tlaxtlahuiltia

Question 49

one who makes payment (see Karttunen) {CN}

Answer 49

tlaxtlauhqui

Question 50

a coin, worth one real (8 tomines or reales = one peso); or, more generally, money
(a loanword from Spanish) {CN}

Answer 50

tomi­n

Question 51

half a peso, a coin

(a loanword from Spanish) {CN}

Answer 51

toston

Question 52

to be associated with a payment or a prize (?) (see Molina) {CN}

Answer 52

ye ic onoc in tlaxtlahuilli

Question 53

to satisfy a debt that one had (see Molina) {CN}

Answer 53

yollopachihui

Question 54

to satisfy someone’s debt (see Molina) {CN}

Answer 54

yollopachihuitia

Question 55

to wisely address business (see Molina) {CN}

Answer 55

yoyocaitta