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mizquicopalli.

miskikopɑlli

resin for ink (see Molina)

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Mizquihua.

Orthographic Variants:

Mizquiva

a person's name (attested as male)

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mizquiquilitl.

This edible herb (which can be cooked in a pot) is pictured and glossed in the Florentine Codex Book 11, folio 134r. See also f. 135r for text about it.

Sahagún, Bernardino de, Antonio Valeriano, Alonso Vegerano, Martín Jacobita, Pedro de San Buenaventura, Diego de Grado, Bonifacio Maximiliano, Mateo Severino, et al. Historia general de las cosas de Nueva España (Florentine Codex), Ms. Mediceo Palatino 218–20, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Florence, MiBACT, 1577. Available at Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter, Alicia Maria Houtrouw, Kevin Terraciano, Jeanette Peterson, Diana Magaloni, and Lisa Sousa, bk. 11, fol. 134r. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/11/folio/134r . Accessed 18 November 2025.

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mizquitl.

miskitɬ

Orthographic Variants:

mezquitl

the mesquite tree; its sap was used for ink (see Karttunen and Molina); also, a person's name (attested male)

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Mizquixahualtzin.

a noblewoman from Tula, daughter of Aztauhyatzin; she married Axayacatzin, ruler of Tenochtitlan
(central Mexico, early seventeenth century)
Codex Chimalpahin: Society and Politics in Mexico Tenochtitlan, Tlatelolco, Culhuacan, and Other Nahuatl Altepetl in Central Mexico; The Nahuatl and Spanish Annals and Accounts Collected and Recorded by don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Susan Schroeder (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), vol. 1, 160–161.

Another Mizquixahualtzin was the fifth child of Tlacateotzin (ruler of Tlatelolco) and Xiuhtomiyauhtzin.
(central Mexico, early seventeenth century)
Codex Chimalpahin: Society and Politics in Mexico Tenochtitlan, Tlatelolco, Culhuacan, and Other Nahuatl Altepetl in Central Mexico; The Nahuatl and Spanish Annals and Accounts Collected and Recorded by don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Susan Schroeder (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), vol. 2, 112–113.

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miztepiton.

mistepitoːn

small wild cat (see Molina)

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miztetl.

measurement consisting of the length between the extended thumb and forefinger.

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miztli.

mistɬi

Orthographic Variants:

mimistin, mimiztin

mountain lion, cougar, or a wild cat; also, a name given to a child
Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 254.

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mizton.

mistoːn

Orthographic Variants:

mizto

a cat

cat.

# Un animal silvestre o un animal domestico, tiene cuatro patas y uñas grandes, una cola larga y delgada y hay de diferentes colores y su comida son los ratones. “Nosotros nos gusta tener un gato porque come todos los ratones que hay adentro”.

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