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the surnames of a cacique family that was active in the distribution (and probably the production) of títulos of the type called Techialoyan, along with false genealogies and coats of arms; the name Austria was also typically a part of the string of last names used by this family

don Antonio de Mendoza Temazcalxolotzin, a lord from San Sebastián Atzaqualco, is said to have left a painting with information about the men who gave Acamapichtli their daughters to help him have children when his wife, Illancueitl, could not have children; it also tells of the offspring Acamapichtli had. (all according to Chimalpahin)

(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, 84–85.

Orthographic Variants: 
mendoça, Mentoça

a Spanish surname; the first viceroy was don Antonio de Mendoza; some Nahuas used this name

uncooked honey or sap from the maguey plant (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
menexualiztli

hemorrhoids or piles (see Molina)

an group of friars linked to the Franciscans
(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), 204–205.

meokwilin

a worm that lives in the maguey plant (see Molina)

mekijoːtɬ

the long shoot or sprout of the maguey plant (see Molina)

grant, permission, or a grant of privilege or of land
(a loanword from Spanish)

Orthographic Variants: 
mersenario, mercenadio

a Mercedarian, a member of the religious order
(a loanword from Spanish)

constable or watchman in an outlying district
(a loanword from Spanish)

The Tlaxcalan Actas: A Compendium of the Records of the Cabildo of Tlaxcala (1545-1627), eds. James Lockhart, Frances Berdan, and Arthur J.O. Anderson (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1986), 153.

month
(a loanword from Spanish)

a table covering, a tablecloth
(partly a loanword from Spanish, mesa, table)

table
(a loanword from Spanish)

Orthographic Variants: 
mesaquac

the head of the table (partly a loanword from Spanish, mesa, table; see Molina)

small tablecloths (see Molina)
(partially a loanword from Spanish, mesa, table)

Orthographic Variants: 
meson, mexo

an inn, a place of lodging for travelers
(a loanword from Spanish)

Orthographic Variants: 
mestiço, mextiço, mestisotzin, meztiço, mextiso

a person of mixed heritage, European and indigenous; the female version is mestiza
(a loanword from Spanish)

Orthographic Variants: 
metaphora

a metaphor
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 6 -- Rhetoric and Moral Philosophy, No. 14, Part 7, 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), 1.

metɑloːtɬ

the heart or core of the maguey plant (an agave) (see Molina)