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Letter M: Displaying 1341 - 1360 of 2874

mecapalhuia.

mekɑpɑlwiɑ

to outfit oneself with a tump line (for carrying loads) (see Molina)

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mecapalli.

mekɑpɑlli

tump line, a leather strap that runs across the forehead and down the back, for carrying loads; the paired phrase, "huictli mecapalli," the hoe, the tumpline, was a reference to the work of commoner males (see attestations)

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mecapaltia.

mekɑpɑltiɑ

to make a tump line for oneself (see Molina)

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mecapatli.

mekɑpɑhtɬi
Orthographic Variants: 
mecapahtli

sarsaparilla (see Karttunen)

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mecapilli.

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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mecapitzactli.

a little strip of land (contains the word mecatl, cord, which was used for measuring land) (see attestations)

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Mecateca.

an ethnic group, enemies of the Mexica

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), 53.

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mecatia.

mekɑtiɑ

to live together, cohabit; to have a concubine; or, to provide oneself with cords (see Molina)

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mecatica nitehuitequi.

Orthographic Variants: 
mecatica niteuitequi

to whip another person with cords, to give someone lashes as a form of discipline (see Molina)

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mecatica.

mekɑtikɑ

with cords (see Molina)

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mecatitech tlamati.

a climbing cord; or, a rope or noose (see Molina)

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mecatitech tlamatiliztli.

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mecatitech tlamatini.

something that climbs up a rope or cord (?) (see Molina)

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mecatitech tlamatqui.

a climbing cord (see Molina); mecatl (cord) is at the root of this construction

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mecatl.

mekɑtɬ

a cord, a rope; also a unit of area, in most places twenty by twenty matl, but in the Culhuacan wills seemingly twenty by two hundred; also seen to intend "lashes" in the case of whippings; also seen as consort, concubine, when possessed (loaned to Spanish as mecate)
S. L. Cline, Colonial Culhuacan, 1580-1600: A Social History of an Aztec Town (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1986), 236.

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mecatl.

rope, cord.
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mecatlamachtli.

a cord

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mecatlapoa.

to cast lots with cords, divining , testing one's luck (see Molina)

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mecatlapouhque.

those who use cords to determine someone's luck or fate (see Molina)

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mecatlapouhqui.

mekɑtɬɑpoːwki

one who uses cords to determine someone's luck or fate (see Molina)

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