M

Letter M: Displaying 2821 - 2840 of 2895
Orthographic Variants: 
mohzac

covered with unguent (see attestations)

Orthographic Variants: 
moçaua

a fasting; Lent

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

mosɑwɑni
Orthographic Variants: 
mozauani

a man named in the annals of Quauhtinchan; lived in the fifteenth century; went to live in Tlaxcallan for seven years

(Quauhtinchan, sixteenth century)
Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca, eds. Paul Kirchhoff, Lina Odena Güemes, y Luis Reyes García (México: CISINAH, INAH-SEP, 1976), 220.

a well understood and able person (see Molina)

moskɑliɑːni

an able, prudent person; an experienced person; a discrete person

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), 32.

a well understood and able person; or, someone brought back from the edge of death; or someone who has been corrected (see Molina)

to age; or, to become more learned (see Molina)

for a person, animal or plant to grow.
# una persona, animal domestico, animal silvestre, arbol o yerbas se va haciendo grande hacia arriba. “el hijo de José crece rapido porque yo lo habia visto chiquito y ahora esta muy alto”.

aged, already advanced in age (see Molina)

servant
(a loanword from Spanish)

mosoːmɑni

an angry person, envious of another

Orthographic Variants: 
mozoneua
mosoneːwɑni
Orthographic Variants: 
mozoneuani

This hairy and rough herb is nevertheless savory and tasty. It is pictured and glossed in the Florentine Codex Book 11, folio 134r., and it is described on folio 136r.

Sahagún, Bernardino de, Antonio Valeriano, Alonso Vegerano, Martín Jacobita, Pedro de San Buenaventura, Diego de Grado, Bonifacio Maximiliano, Mateo Severino, et al. Historia general de las cosas de Nueva España (Florentine Codex), Ms. Mediceo Palatino 218–20, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Florence, MiBACT, 1577. Available at Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter, Alicia Maria Houtrouw, Kevin Terraciano, Jeanette Peterson, Diana Magaloni, and Lisa Sousa, bk. 11, fol. 134r. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/11/folio/134r . Accessed 18 November 2025.

moːsoːtɬ
Orthographic Variants: 
mōzōtl

plant that produces indigo dye and from which an antidysentery medicine is made (see Karttunen)