M

Letter M: Displaying 2401 - 2420 of 2895
Orthographic Variants: 
mumuztla tlaza

to procrastinate or defer something from day to day

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.

moːmoːstɬɑtɬɑːʃiliɑ
moːmoːstɬɑtɬɑːsɑ

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

momostɬi
Orthographic Variants: 
mumuztli

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.

Orthographic Variants: 
monauac
Orthographic Variants: 
monauatil

one who sells him or herself, such as a prostitute
Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter and Alicia Maria Houtrouw, "Book 10: The People", fols. 69v-70r, Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/10/folio/70r/images/0 Accessed 10 September 2025.

monɑːnmiktiɑːni
Orthographic Variants: 
monesterio, monestelio

monastery
(a loanword from Spanish)

Orthographic Variants: 
moncauia cuicatl

a polyphonic duo; or a duo of organ music (?) (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
moncauitinemi

for two people to go about or live together (see Molina)

monekki

someone arrogant (see Karttunen)