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Letter M: Displaying 1321 - 1340 of 2895

mecacehuiztli.

mehkɑsewistɬi
Orthographic Variants: 
mehcacehuiztli

fleabites, rash (see Karttunen)

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mecachihua.

mekɑtʃiːwɑ
Orthographic Variants: 
mecachiua

to make cords (see Molina)

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mecachihualiztli.

mekɑtʃiːwɑlistɬi
Orthographic Variants: 
mecachiualiztli

the act of making cords; cordmaking (see Molina)

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mecachihuani.

mekɑtʃiːwɑni
Orthographic Variants: 
mecachiuani

one who makes cords; a cordmaker (see Molina)

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mecachiuhqui.

mekɑtʃiːwki

one who makes cords; a cordmaker (see Molina)

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mecacoatl.

a type of very long snake (see the painting of it in the Florentine Codex)
Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter and Alicia Maria Houtrouw, "Book 11: Earthly Things", fol. 88v, Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/11/folio/88v/images/0 Accessed 3 November 2025.

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mecaconetl.

the child of an enslaved human being (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), 2.

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mecahua.

Orthographic Variants: 
mecahuah

a man with one or more mistresses

Gran Diccionario Náhuatl, citing Wimmer 2004, https://gdn.iib.unam.mx/diccionario/mecahua/54367. Translated here to English by Stephanie Wood.

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mecahuehuetl.

mekɑweːweːtɬ
Orthographic Variants: 
mecaueuetl, mecauehuetl

a vihuela (guitar-like instrument), or harp (see Molina)

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mecahuehuetzotzona.

mekɑweːweːtsotsonɑ
Orthographic Variants: 
mecaueuetzotzona, mecauehuetzotzona

to play a vihuela (guitar-like instrument), a harp, or the like (see Molina)

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mecahuehuetzotzonaliztli.

mekɑweːweːtsotsonɑlistɬi
Orthographic Variants: 
mecaueuetzotzonaliztli, mecauehuetzotzonaliztli

the act of playing a vihuela (guitar-like instrument) (see Molina)

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mecahuehuetzotzonani.

mekɑweːweːtsotsonɑni
Orthographic Variants: 
mecaueuetzotzonani, mecauehuetzotzonani

one who plays a vihuela (guitar-like instrument) (see Molina)

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mecahuehuetzotzonqui.

mekɑweːweːtsotsonki
Orthographic Variants: 
mecaueuetzotzonqui, mecauehuetzotzonqui

one who plays a vihuela (guitar-like instrument) (see Molina)

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mecahuia.

mekɑwiɑ
Orthographic Variants: 
mecauia

to hunt wild animals with ropes; or, to attach something with cords; or, to become tied up or caught in a lasso (see Molina)

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mecahuitequi.

mekɑwiːteki
Orthographic Variants: 
mecauitequi

to flagellate oneself (intransitive); or, to whip someone (transitive) (see Molina and Karttunen)

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mecamalina.

mekɑmɑliːnɑ
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mecamalinaliztli.

mekɑmɑliːnɑlistɬi
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mecamalinani.

mekɑmɑliːnɑni
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mecamalinqui.

a cordmaker (see Molina)

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mecamaxalli.

a divided or forked rope (see the Florentine Codex, Book 8, f. 31v)

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