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miːʃtiliɑːni

a person who wishes to be respected, looked upon well (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
mixtitlan moquixtiquiuh

he/she/it will come and appear in the cloud (see Molina)

miʃtitɬɑn

among the clouds, in the clouds; or, the clouds (see Molina)

miʃtɬɑh
Orthographic Variants: 
mixtlah

an abundance of clouds (see Karttunen)

for s.o. or an animal to turn face down.
# Ni. Una persona voltea completamente el cuerpo de otro y su rostro se pone por abajo. “Mi bebé empieza ya a ponerse boca abajo, tal vez caminará muy pronto”.
to fall forward onto one’s chest.
miːʃtɬɑhpɑloɑːni

(one who is) bold, courageous, and daring (see Molina)

for a people or a town to be destroyed/demolished; or, for a town to fall into ruin (see Molina)

the havoc of the dead; or, ravage of death in battle (see Molina); or, a massive death, massacre, or bloodbath (see Siméon)

miːʃtɬɑtɬɑktiliɑːni

one who has a face illuminated with shame, or a burning face (see Molina)

miʃtɬɑyowɑ

to be dark because of heavy clouds (see Karttunen)

miʃtɬeːwɑ
Orthographic Variants: 
mixtleua

it becomes very cloudy; many clouds arise, loom up (see Molina)

miʃtɬi

cloud(s)
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.

cloud.
for a person or animal to fall on their face.
miːʃtoneːwɑni
Orthographic Variants: 
mixtoneuani

one who has a face illuminated with shame, or a burning face (see Molina)

for a person, animal or thing to fall on its head.
the sections of an orange, a lemon or cane

"his face is painted in a quail motif"

Elena Mazzetto, "Quail in the Religious Life of the Ancient Nahuas," in Susan Milbrath and Elizabeth Baquedano, eds., Birds and Beasts of Ancient Mesoamerica. Denver: University Press of Colorado, 2023, 204.

a type of snake or serpent (see a painting of it in the Digital Florentine Codex)
Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter and Alicia Maria Houtrouw, "Book 11: Earthly Things", fol. 90v, Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/11/folio/90v/images/0 Accessed 3 November 2025.

miyɑːwɑpɑhtɬi
Orthographic Variants: 
miyāhuapahtli

a parasitic plant used to stimulate the appetite (see Karttunen)