M | Nahuatl Dictionary

Letter M: Displaying 1561 - 1580 of 2902

mētzti.

to have been someplace or to have been doing s.t. for a month.

#una persona estaba acompletando ya un mes de hacer alguna cosa o de estar en algun lugar,”yo ya tengo un de estar sola por que se murio mi esposo y no me visitan mis hijos.”

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metztica.

by the month, monthly (-tica, when added to metz-, from metztli, and when combined with a number, such as three, would mean "three months" or every three months)

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metztihtilāna.

to pull repeatedly on s.o.’s leg.

# Nic. Una persona agarra la pierna de otro y lo jala muchas veces. “Eliseo le jaló la pierna muy fuerte a su hermana cuando jugaban y ahora le duele la pierna”.

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mētztiya.

it has been one month since...

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mētztiyān.

a month after s.t. is done.

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metztlalhuatl.

metstɬɑlwɑtɬ

the nerves of the leg (see Molina)

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metztlapachtli.

metstɬɑpɑtʃtɬi

Orthographic Variants:

metztlapachtli

groin (see Karttunen)

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to count the months or the phases of the moon in an orderly fashion (see attestations) (central Mexico, early 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, 126–127.

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metztlapohualli.

the count of the months or the phases of the moon

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), 88.

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metztlapohuani.

Orthographic Variants:

metztlapoani

one who keeps track of the months (e.g., for the purpose of knowing the agricultural seasons)
Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter and Alicia Maria Houtrouw, "Book 10: The People", fol. 29r, Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/10/folio/29r/images/0 Accessed 10 September 2025.

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metztli cualo.

Orthographic Variants:

metztli qualo

to be in eclipse (a verb, referring to the moon) (see Molina); literally, the moon is eaten; see also qualometztli

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metztli icualoca.

Orthographic Variants:

metztli iqualoca

an eclipse of the moon (see Molina)

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metztli imiquiz.

conjunction of the moon (literally, the moon's death) (see Molina)

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metztli mayo.

the month of May (see Molina)

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metztli.

meːtstɬi

Orthographic Variants:

meztli, mestli, metzintli, mextli

a month; moon; crescent (see Karttunen and Lockhart); see also our entry for metztli meaning the leg of an animal or a person (and see Molina)

1. moon. 2. month.

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metztli.

metstɬi

leg of a person or of an animal (see Molina)

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metztli.

s.o.’s leg.

# No. Un parte de la cintura de una persona, animal silvestre y animal domestico, lo usan para caminar y para pararse. “Me duele mucho mi pierna porque me caí en la noche”.

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