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Letter M: Displaying 1381 - 1400 of 2902

mēchahyō.

candle wick.
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mechontic.

metʃoːntik
Orthographic Variants: 
mechōntic

someone bandylegged (see Karttunen)

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mecoatl.

thick roots of the maguey plant; used in religious ceremonies; also used for soap

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), 60.

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mēcoh.

the disguised or masked ones at the carnaval in the Huasteca region of Veracruz.
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mēcohti.

for a man who has put on a mask and dressed as a woman to dance with other mecohtitlan dancers.
# ni. Una persona varón se pone ropa de mujer, se pone una mascara y baila con otros en el festival de disfrazes. “Miguel se disfrazó hace una año, se puso una nahua y una camisa y no lo reconocieron”.
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mēcohtiā.

for a man who has put on a mask and dressed as a woman to dance with other mecohtitlan dancers.
# ni. Una persona varón se pone ropa de mujer, se pone una mascara y baila con otros en el festival de disfrazes. “Miguel se disfrazó hace una año, se puso una nahua y una camisa y no lo reconocieron”.
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mēcohtic.

person who has painted their face to participate in the carnaval.
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mēcohtitlan.

carnaval festival of the Huasteca region of Veracruz.
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mēcohtlan.

carnaval festival of the Huasteca region of Veracruz.
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mecohuia.

mekoːwiɑ
Orthographic Variants: 
mecouia

to purchase magueyes (agave plants) (see Molina)

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mēcoz.

See MĒCOH.
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médico.

Orthographic Variants: 
medigo

doctor
(a loanword from Spanish)

(early seventeenth century, central New Spain)
Annals of His Time: Don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, James Lockhart, Susan Schroeder, and Doris Namala, eds. and transl. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006), 200–201.

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medida.

measurement
(a loanword from Spanish)

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Medina.

a Spanish surname

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medio.

Orthographic Variants: 
melio, media

a half; a half real or tomin; coin; money; monetary value; also seen as an adjective (see attestations)

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meditación.

a meditation, a spiritual exercise
(a loanword from Spanish)

(central Mexico, late sixteenth century; originally from Sahagún in 1574, a document that Chimalpahin copied)
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, 132–133.

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meelehuia.

Orthographic Variants: 
meeleuia

a man who is a tyrant (see Molina)

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meh.

plural absolutive suffix.
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mehcātzan.

even though....
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mehmecāniā.

to get one’s feet repeatedly entangled in something on the ground while walking.
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