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Letter M: Displaying 561 - 580 of 2874

malinqui tecomatl.

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malinqui xico cuitla ocotl.

a hatchet made from fatwood, a wood usually used for torches (see Molina)

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malinqui.

something twisted or taut, like a cord (see Molina)

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malintihuetzi.

Orthographic Variants: 
malintiuetzi
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malintiuh.

to twine, to twist, to enwreathe

Daniel Garrison Brinton, Ancient Nahuatl Poetry: Containing the Nahuatl Text of XXVII Ancient Mexican Poems (1877), 156.

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Malintzin.

Orthographic Variants: 
Malinche

See our entry, Marina.

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malli.

mɑːlli

war captive, prisoner (see Molina and Karttunen)

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mālohlocotzoā.

to roll up one’s sleeves.
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malteotl.

Orthographic Variants: 
malteutl

the "god-captive" -- it was a thigh bone from a sacrificed captive, with all the flesh removed, and wrapped with paper and adorned with a mask

Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 2 -- The Ceremonies, No. 14, Part III, 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, 1951), 57.

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malti.

mɑːlti

to be a captive (see Karttunen and Molina)

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maltia.

mɑltiɑ

to capture another person, to give the impression that one has captured the person who someone else captured(see Molina)

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māltiā.

to bathe.
A. 1. Una perosna se echa agua o le echa agua y jabón a otro o algun animal porque esta socio. “Leobardo se baña porque esta socio”. 2. Una persona se echa o le echa agua y medicina a alguien o un animal porque esta enfermo. “Mi tía baña jacqueline con yerba medicinal porque no tiene hambre”.
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maltin.

captives (see Molina)

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mama.

mɑːmɑː
Orthographic Variants: 
meme

to carry, bear (see also our entry, meme)
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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māmā.

to carry s.t. on one’s back.
# nic. Una persona lleva su bebe o una cosa en su espalda. “María siempre lleva su bebe en su espalda cuando va a la milpa a dar de comer en medio día”
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mamaca.

mɑhmɑkɑ
Orthographic Variants: 
mahmaca

to distribute, give, divide something among several people

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māmaca.

to give s.t. to s.o. after all.
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māmācāhua.

to grant permission to s.o. after all.
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mamacehuallatoa.

Orthographic Variants: 
mamaceuallatoa

to be discourteous and rustic in speaking (see Molina)

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mamacehuallatoliztica.

Orthographic Variants: 
mamaceuallatoliztica

through rustic or discourteous speech (see Molina)

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