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for something to be growing or rising (see Molina)

mɑːkotoktik

one-handed due to self-mutilation (see Molina)

mɑːkotoltik
Orthographic Variants: 
mācotoltic

person who has had a hand or arm cut off (see Karttunen)

mɑːkotoːnɑ

to cut off the hands of someone else (see Molina)

to cut off s.o., an animal or s.t.’s hand.
# Nic. Una persona, animal silvestre y animal domestico quiebra una cosa de donde está pegado. “Jorge revienta el plátano maduro para comerlo porque tiene hambre”.
# Nic. Una persona, animal silvestre o animal domestico descompone una cosa en la mano. “Le revente el apilol de mi tía porque lo aventé muy fuerte en el pozo cuando agarraba el agua”.
mɑːkotoːnki

one-handed due to self-mutilation (see Molina)

for a person or an animal to have short arms.
mɑːkpɑ

of my hands or from my hands (see Molina)

mɑːkpɑlko

in the palm of the hand (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
macpalcomulli

a spoon-like hand, cupped (see Molina)

a dancer who carries a dead woman's forearm

Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 10 -- The People, No. 14, Part 11, 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), 39.

mɑːkpɑlihtoːtiɑ

to charm or enchant someone with the intention of stealing from that person (see Molina)

the palm of the hand (see Sahagún)

mɑːkpɑlli

the palm of the hand (literally, seat of the hand); the hand (see Molina and Karttunen); also, a personal name

See also our entry for cemmacpalli.

Orthographic Variants: 
macpalmachiotia

to use one's palm as a form of signaling (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
macpalmachiotl

a signal made with the palm of their hand (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
macpalteputztli

the back of the hand or the knuckles (see Molina)

mɑːkpɑlʃoːtʃitɬ
Orthographic Variants: 
mācpalxōchitl

a type of plant (Chiranthodendron pentadactylon) with medicinal uses (see Karttunen)