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moknoːmɑtini

humble or poor (see Molina)

to achieve something for oneself (see Molina)

to be contrite, humble; also, a name, attested as male in 16th-c. Mexico City (see attestations)

Orthographic Variants: 
mocochtlapiquiani

to be sick, is sick (see Molina)

the serpent dance (see attestations from Sahagún)

the name of a deity who was also called Tezcatlipoca, Yaotzin, Necoc Yaotl, and Nezahualpilli

(central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 3 -- The Origin of the Gods, Part IV, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1978), 12.

over (above, on top of) you

Robert Haskett and Stephanie Wood's notes from Nahuatl sessions with James Lockhart and subsequent research.

Orthographic Variants: 
moquâ

to have sex, to have carnal desire, to lie together

(central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 6 -- Rhetoric and Moral Philosophy, No. 14, Part 7, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1961), chapter 27.

Orthographic Variants: 
moquauaquiani, moquahuaquiani

one who has been ambushed in a forest or some woods (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
moquauaquiqui, moquahuaquiqui

one who has been ambushed in a forest or some woods (see Molina)