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Letter M: Displaying 2061 - 2080 of 2902

mixtonehuani.

miːʃtoneːwɑni
Orthographic Variants: 
mixtoneuani

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

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mīxtrōnquetza.

for a person, animal or thing to fall on its head.
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mīxxō.

the sections of an orange, a lemon or cane
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mixzolichiuhticac.

"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.

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miyahuacoatl.

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.

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miyahuapatli.

miyɑːwɑpɑhtɬi
Orthographic Variants: 
miyāhuapahtli

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

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miyahuati.

miyɑːwɑti
Orthographic Variants: 
miyāhuati

for a cornstalk to produce tassels and flowers (see Karttunen)

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miyahuatl.

miyɑːwɑtɬ
Orthographic Variants: 
miyaoatl, miahuatl, miaoatl

maize tassel flower; can also refer to other things with a similar appearance 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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miyahuatototl.

Orthographic Variants: 
miauatototl, miahuatototl, miaoatototl

Lesser Goldfinch, a bird (see Hunn, attestations)

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miyahuaxoch.

Orthographic Variants: 
miyaoaxoch

maize tassel flower, a name for girls (Central Mexico, sixteenth century)

Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 255.

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miyanani.

mijɑnɑni

an elusive person, or one who hides (see Molina; Engl. transl. here by Stephanie Wood)

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miyexi.

miːyeʃi
Orthographic Variants: 
mīyexi

to break wind (see Karttunen)

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mizahuia.

to be apprehensive (see attestations)

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mizahuiani.

misɑwiɑːni
Orthographic Variants: 
mizauiani

the one who is admired or scares something (see Molina)

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mizahuiqui.

Orthographic Variants: 
mizauiqui

the one who is admired or who is startled by something (see Molina)

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mizconetl.

miskoneːtɬ

a small lion; or, a small wild cat (see Molina)

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mizehuapetlatl.

Orthographic Variants: 
miçehuapetlatl

mountain lion skin mat
Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 210.

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mizilama.

misilɑmɑ

female cat (see Karttunen)

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mizotlani.

misoːtɬɑni

one who vomits (see Molina)

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Mizquic.

a community in central Mexico; the name translates On the Mesquite Tree(s), or At the Mesquite Tree(s), or By the Mesquite Tree(s)

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