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Letter M: Displaying 1201 - 1220 of 2874

Maxtlatzin.

a son of Huehue Tezozomoctli and Tzihuacxochitzin (of Malinalco), he ruled in Coyoacan
(central Mexico, seventeenth century)
Codex Chimalpahin: Society and Politics in Mexico Tenochtitlan, Tlatelolco, Culhuacan, and Other Nahuatl Altepetl in Central Mexico; The Nahuatl and Spanish Annals and Accounts Collected and Recorded by don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Susan Schroeder (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), vol. 2, 110–111.

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Maya.

a person's name (gender not made clear)

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maya.

This word introduces a phrase that rectifies or clarifies an error in s.t. said earlier. (surprise, astonishment, sudden realization)
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mayahui.

mɑːyɑwi
Orthographic Variants: 
mayaui

to hurl, hurl down
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.

to hurl something down, to dash someone down to his death (see Karttunen)

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Mayahuini.

Orthographic Variants: 
Maniauini, Maniahuini

a tlatoani (tlahtoani) and Chichimeca governor who came to power in the year 9 Rabbit, succeeding Moquihuix, and died in the year 2 Rabbit (Quauhtinchan, s. XVI)
Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca, eds. Paul Kirchhoff, Lina Odena Güemes, y Luis Reyes García (México: CISINAH, INAH-SEP, 1976), 210, 211.

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mayana.

mɑyɑːnɑ

to be hungry

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.

to be hungry.
A. Una persona, animal, vacas y la tierra quiere comer porque no ha comido. “Eduardo tiene hambre porque ya cerraron el comedor”. “La muerte tiene hambre porque baja la tieera donde lo han enterrado”.”Empezó a morirse los animales de mi papá porque tienen hambre la tierra, y por eso le dio de comer”. B. Tener hambre.
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mayanaliztli.

mɑyɑːnɑlistɬi
Orthographic Variants: 
mayanalistli

hunger, famine (see Molina and Karttunen)

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mayanalo.

mɑyɑːnɑloː

one is hungry, everyone is hungry, there is famine
Michel Launey, An Introduction to Classical Nahuatl, translated and adapted by Christopher MacKay (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011), 144.

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mayanaltia.

mɑyɑːnɑltiɑː

to starve someone to death (literally, to make someone be hungry) (see Molina and Karttunen)

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mayanani.

mɑjɑːnɑni

severe hunger, starvation (see Molina)

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mayancacui.

mɑyɑːnkɑːkwi
Orthographic Variants: 
mayāncācui

to get hungry (see Karttunen)

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mayanmiqui.

mɑyɑːnmiki
Orthographic Variants: 
mayānmiqui

to be very hungry, to be perishing of hunger (see Karttunen)

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mayantli.

mɑyɑːntɬi
Orthographic Variants: 
mayāntli

hunger (see Karttunen)

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mayāntli.

hunger.
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mayaquen.

mɑjɑken

wolf (both in female and male pronouns) (see Molina)

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mayatl.

mɑjɑːtɬ

a certain flying beetle (see Molina)

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mayauhcantli.

right hand (see Molina)

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mayauhtihuetzi.

Orthographic Variants: 
mayauhtiuetzi

to throw oneself to the floor (see Molina)

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maye.

mɑːyeh
Orthographic Variants: 
māyeh

someone with hands (see Karttunen)

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mayeccantli.

mɑːyeːkkɑːntɬi

right hand (see Molina and Karttunen)

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