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Letter M: Displaying 2001 - 2020 of 2902

mixiquipilli.

miːʃikipilli

a quiver of arrows or darts (see Molina); mitl + xiquipilli

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mixitl tlapatl.

drunkenness, intoxication (a metaphor) (see Carochi), comes from jimsonweed

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mixitl.

miːʃiːtɬ

a hallucinogenic plant

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), 225.

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mixiuhqui.

miːʃiːwki

calving (see Molina)

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mīxmachyōtiā.

to make the sign of the cross.
# nimo. Una persona hace una cruz en su rostro cuando va a la iglesia. “ Todas las personas enseñan a sus hijos a persinarse cuando pasan cerca de la iglesia”.
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mixmana.

to uncover oneself, or find out what was a secret (uncover a secret) (see Molina)

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mixmoloni.

miʃmoloːni
Orthographic Variants: 
mixmolōni

for clouds to build up (see Karttunen)

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mixnamicticate.

to live together as one (see Molina)

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mixnamictimani.

to be looking at one another face to face (see Molina)

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mixnamictinemi.

currently some people are feuding and discordant (see Molina)

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mixnamiqui.

Orthographic Variants: 
mixnamicqui

litigants, contenders (noun); to contend (verb)

Thelma Sullivan, Documentos Tlaxcaltecas del siglo XVI en lengua náhuatl (Mexico: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 1987), 41.

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mixochtiani.

a person that is vomiting (see Molina)

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mixonehuatl.

miʃoneːwɑtɬ
Orthographic Variants: 
mixoneuatl

the scales or skin of a fish (see Molina)

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mixonehuayotlaza.

miʃoneːwɑjoːtɬɑːsɑ
Orthographic Variants: 
mixoneuayotlaza

to remove the scales from a fish (see Molina)

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mixoyoteca.

miʃojoteːkɑ

crenellate (see Molina)

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mixoyotl.

miʃojotɬ

battlement (see Molina)

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mixoyotl.

Orthographic Variants: 
mixuyutl

a beehive or honeycomb (see Molina)

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mixoyotlalia.

miʃojotɬɑːliɑ

to put merlons on a rampart or castle, to make a battlement (see Molina)

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mixpantli.

a tornado (see attestations)

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mixpantzinco.

a greeting that one uses in modern Nahuatl; literally, before you, in your presence (in the reverential)

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