A la color azul fina llaman matlalli, que quiere decir "azul". Este color se hace de flores azules. Color es muy preciada y muy aplacible de ver. Llámase también cardenillo en la lengua española.
\nHay un color que es amarillo claro, al cual llaman zacatlaxcalli, que quiere decir "pan de yerba", porque se amasa de unas yerbas amarillas que son muy delgadas. Véndese en los tiánquez. Son como turtillas amarillas amasadas y delgadas. Usan destas turtillas para teñir de amarillo o para hacer color amarilla para pintar.
\nHay una color colorada blanque[cina]
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\nThere is a color that is light yellow, which they call zacatlaxcalli, and it means “grass bread,” because a dough is made from some yellow grasses that are very thin. [The dough] is sold in the tianquiz. They are like thin yellow tortillas made from this dough. They use these tortillas for yellow dye or to produce a yellow color used for painting.
\nThere is a whitish red color
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\nNitlaxochipalhuja, njtlaxochipalaquja, njcxochipalhuja.
\nacan qujzquj in jtoca, xivitl ixochio, xochitl: inin matlali texotic, ioan achi qujltic, cenca ixtlapalivi, ixchicactic, qualli, qualnezquj, celic, celtic, celpatic, ixtlapalivi, ixtlapaltic:
\nnjmatlalchiva, njtlamatlalchiva, njtlamatlallotia, njtlamatlalpoiava, njtlamatlalaquja.
\nçacatl, ioan tlaxcalli, itech qujztica in jtoca: ipampa iuhqujn çacatl movivicoma, in jtech qujça coztic, memelactic, pipitzavac, in jtech qujça çacatlaxcalli. Injc tlaxcalli, ca tlatlaxcaltilli, iuhqujn iavale tlaxcalli, patlavac iavale, vej, canaoac, tonaian in jmochiuhian, coztic, coçauhquj, coçauic, cozpatic, cozpiltic.
\nNitlaçacatlaxcalhuja, njtlaçacatlaxcallotia, njtlacoçalhuja, njtlacoztilia.
\na[can]
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\nI make something a fine yellow. I apply a fine yellow to something. I color it a fine yellow.1
\nIts name comes from nowhere. It is the blossom of an herb, a blossom. This matlalin is blue and a little herb-green. It is very sound, firm, good, of good appearance, fresh green. It is fresh green, very fresh green. It colors solidly; it is solid-colored.
\nI make the blue color. I make something blue.2 I blue something. I blend the blue. I apply blue to something.
\nIts name comes from çacatl [grass] and tlaxcalli [tortilla], because [the plant] climbs like grass. Yellow comes from it. It is long, it is slender. From it comes light yellow. It is a tortilla in the sense that it is formed like a tortilla, like a round tortilla—wide, round, big, thin. The hot lands are the places where it grows. It is yellow—yellow; it is yellow, very yellow, extremely yellow.
\nI make something light yellow. I color something light yellow. I make something yellow. I yellow something.
\nAcad. Hist. MS: nicxochipalchiva.↩
Ibid.: nitlamatlalvia.↩
Çacatlaxcalli: prob. Cuscuta tinctorea Mart.; Con el nombre de “zacatlascal” se designa a C. americana L., a C. odontolepis Eng., y con el de “zacatlaxcale” a C. americana (Hernández, Hist. de las Plantas, Vol. II, p. 394).↩
Achiotl: Bixa orellana L. (Santamaría, op. cit., p. 28).↩