⚠ Site currently under repair ⚠

Search Issues: Update 2026-08-17 - Repairs are ongoing. Thank you for your continued patience!

Some of our more complex, multi-field searches (such as the search field on our homepage and Search All Fields) are currently under repair and may not work as expected.

Thank you to all our users who emailed to alert us to the problem! We hope to have it repaired soon.

Meanwhile, elements of the Advanced Search are working and the Alphabetical Listings are working, too.

M

Letter M: Displaying 1 - 20 of 2902
-mɑːɑːkɑyoː
Orthographic Variants: 
-māācayō

one’s forearm (a necessarily possessed form; see Karttunen)

-mɑːk
Orthographic Variants: 
-māc

in the hands of (a necessarily possessed form; see Karttunen)

what one deserves, what one attains or enjoys

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.

-mɑhseːwɑlti

for something to become what one deserves, i.e., for one to attain or enjoy it

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.

secondary particle; intensifies dubitative particles and interrogatives, often can be translated as the devil, in the world, in heaven's name, etc.

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.

-mɑːkpɑ
Orthographic Variants: 
-mācpa

compound postposition from or by one´s hands (see Karttunen)

-mɑːikniːw
Orthographic Variants: 
-māicnīuh

one’s comrade, fellow laborer (only attested in possessed form) (see Karttunen)

-mɑːiːʃko
Orthographic Variants: 
-māīxco

compound in the palm of one’s hand (see Karttunen)

the bearing of something, the governing of something

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), 224.

-mɑːmɑːyoː
Orthographic Variants: 
-māmāyō

the branches of a tree (a necessarily possessed form; see Karttunen)

-mɑːmomolok
Orthographic Variants: 
-māmomoloc

one’s elbow (see Karttunen)

-mɑːn

to extend over (an ending on some place names and some personal names)

for things to be a certain way, or in the manner of
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), 224.

This is an ending that is often combined with an ethnicity, to say that some person is like a person of that ethnicity; or, for instance, with fish (mich- or mimich-) at the front, the person in question is like one who fishes; or with chamol-, to be like a red parrot, etc. (See below)

where something spreads out

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), 224.

-mɑːpoːtʃkopɑ
Orthographic Variants: 
-māpōchcopa

to one’s left-hand side (a necessarily possessed form; see Karttunen)

-mɑtiyɑːn
Orthographic Variants: 
-matiyān

one’s time, span of personal experience (a necessarily possessed form; see Karttunen)

-mɑhtɬɑkkɑːniʃti
Orthographic Variants: 
-mahtlaccānixti

in all ten parts of something (must have a possessor) (see Karttunen)

-mɑːtɬɑn
Orthographic Variants: 
-mātlan

in the hand of, under the power of (a necessarily possessed form; see Karttunen)

-mɑːtsɑːlɑn
Orthographic Variants: 
-mātzālan

compound postposition between the hooves, paws of an animal (see Karttunen)

-mɑːyeːkkɑːnkopɑ
Orthographic Variants: 
-māyēccāncopa

at one’s right hand (a necessarily possessed form; see Karttunen)