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a Spanish surname; e.g. don Pedro Moya de Contreras, archibishop of Mexico (e.g. 1584)

(central Mexico, early seventeenth century)
see Annals of His Time: Don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, James Lockhart, Susan Schroeder, and Doris Namala, eds. and transl. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006), 28–29.

mojɑktik

some type of stain (see Molina)

moyɑːwɑ
Orthographic Variants: 
moyaua

to disseminate or disperse something, to deflate something (see Karttunen); to cloud water or other liquid (see Molina); to move or go beyond the paper, for a stain to spread, or for the water to cloud (see Molina's second entry)

for a person or animal to enter a body of water and mix it up with specks of dirt, etc.
# una persona, animal silvestre, animal domestico y una cosa se mete en el agua y lo revuelve. “cuando se seca el agua Laureano les da agua sus vacas en el arroyo y lo revuelven demasiado porque se meten”.

to disturb clear water
Gran Diccionario Náhuatl, https://gdn.iib.unam.mx/diccionario/moyahua/13730

Orthographic Variants: 
moyaualoa

for a snake to coil (see Molina)

person who spins around a lot when dancing.
Orthographic Variants: 
moyaualoqui

a coiled snake (see Molina)

for water to be mixed up with lots of little specks of dirt, lint, etc.
# el agua tiene basuritas hasta abajo y cuando lo mueven se ve mucho. “mamá de Bina, tu agua nada mas se revuelve a lomejor no lavaste bien tu cubeta”.
# 1. nic. Persona, animal domestico o animal silvestre mueve el agua y se queda revuelta. “Martín, no muevas esa agua porque nada mas lo revuelves y yo quiero lavar”. 2. nic. Persona lo menea una cosa o un tipo de comida y no deja que se asienta. “Anna, ya no lo menees ese café porque nada mas lo revuelves y yo me quiero servir”.
Orthographic Variants: 
moyamancai uino

a page who brings wine(?) (see Molina)
(partly a loanword from Spanish, huino = vino = wine)

participate in the ceremony held at the beginning of the year in order to give thanks for what has been recieved and to ask for all manner of good things.
mojɑːoːtʃihtʃiːwki

armed for battle (see Molina)

a fencer, one who fences (see Molina)

a fencer, one who fences (see Molina)

a fencer, one who fences, or someone new in war (see Molina)

a fencer, one who fences, or someone new in war (see Molina)

mojɑhjɑːoːtɬɑni

a skirmisher (see Molina), apparently a type of warrior