M | Nahuatl Dictionary

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momotzoā.

to tear up plants, leaving the roots.

A. Persona, animal silvestre y animal domestico revienta la hierba por encimita y lo arranca como sea. “Ese señor arranca mi cilantro como sea y no me gusta como queda.” B. Arrancar.

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mōmotzquiā.

for two things to stick together. after all.

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momoxtic.

mohmoʃtik

Orthographic Variants:

mohmoxtic

something torn open, tattered (see Karttunen)

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momoxtiya.

momoʃtiyɑ

to come apart, to get tattered (see Karttunen)

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momoyactli.

a warrior outfit made primarily of red feathers; the accompanying headdress also had two rows of green and white feathers; or, that which is dispersed

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momoyahua.

mohmojɑːwɑ

Orthographic Variants:

momoyaua

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momoyahualiztli.

momojɑːwɑlistɬi

Orthographic Variants:

momoyaualiztli

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momoyahui.

momojɑwi

Orthographic Variants:

momoyaui

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momoztla tlaza.

Orthographic Variants:

mumuztla tlaza

to procrastinate or defer something from day to day

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momoztlae.

moːmoːstɬɑeh

Orthographic Variants:

mumuztlae, mōmōztlaeh

every day, daily

Andrés de Olmos, Arte para aprender la lengua Mexicana, ed. Rémi Siméon, facsimile edition ed. Miguel León-Portilla (Guadalajara: Edmundo Aviña Levy, 1972), 189.

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momoztlatlaza.

moːmoːstɬɑtɬɑːsɑ

to defer something from day to day, or to procrastinate (see Molina; translation to English here by Stephanie Wood)

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platform or raised altar for sacrificial offerings and displays in pre-conquest style; shrines; mound, platform, etc., in colonial times
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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