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māitl.

1. a slap in the face. 2. s.o.’s arm or hand.
# No. Una persona y animal silvestre una parte de su cuerpo que lo utilizan para agarrar. “Mi abuelita se lastimó la mano porque se cayó en un barranco”,
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maitzmini.

mɑːitsmiːni
Orthographic Variants: 
māitzmīni

to receive an injection en the arm; to inject someone in the arm (see Karttunen)

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māitzquiā.

to grab s.o. or an animal’s hand or paw.
# Nic. Una persona agarra con la mano a alguien, un animal domestico o una cosa y no lo suelta. “Mi hermana le agarra la mano de su hijo cuando pasan un camino donde hay muchos carros”.
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maiuhqui.

mɑhiwki
Orthographic Variants: 
mahiuhqui

as, in the manner of (see Karttunen)

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maixnotza.

mɑːiːʃnoːtsɑ
Orthographic Variants: 
māīxnōtza

to beckon to someone with one’s hand (see Karttunen)

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māiztitl.

s.o. or s.t.’s fingernail.
# No. Una persona, animal silvestre y animal domestico que le crece en la parte superior del dedo de la mano o del dedo del pie. “Las uñas de aquella abuelita, son muy gruesas y ya no puede cortarlos”.
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majestad.

Orthographic Variants: 
magestad, majesdad

majesty
(a loanword from Spanish)

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malacachihui.

mɑlɑkɑtʃiwi

to spin, revolve (see Karttunen)

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malacachiuhcatequi.

to crop or cut around something (see Molina)

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malacachiuhcayotl.

the roundness of a buckler or target, or of a round table, etc. (see Molina)

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malacachoa.

mɑlɑkɑtʃoɑː
Orthographic Variants: 
mallacachoa

to make something revolve, spin, to wind it up
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), 224.

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mālacachoā.

to grab a person’s hands and twirl them around.
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malacachtic.

mɑlɑkɑtʃtik
Orthographic Variants: 
malacachtic

somethig round, circular (see Karttunen)

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malacaehecatl.

mɑlɑkɑeheːkɑtɬ
Orthographic Variants: 
malacaehēcatl

whirlwind (see Karttunen)

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malacametla tlatzotzona.

to pick out a millstone to grind or mill (see Molina)

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malacatic.

round like a spindle whorl (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
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), 109.

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malacatl.

mɑlɑkɑtɬ
Orthographic Variants: 
mallacatl

a spindle, bobbin, spiral; spindle whorl; this was an object that was gendered, being associated with women's work

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malacayo.

the conjunction of branches and leaves that makes the exterior of the tree (like the canopy) (see Molina)

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malacayoticac.

the conjunction of branches and leaves that make the exterior of the tree (like the canopy) (see Molina)

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malcalli.

a place where captives or enslaved human beings were kept (see Sahagún)

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