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Letter M: Displaying 1581 - 1600 of 2902

metztontli.

a short month; or, a waning moon; or a small leg (see Molina)

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metztzālan.

between s.o. or an animal’s legs.
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metzxocpalli.

metsʃokpɑlli

sole of one’s foot (see Karttunen)

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meuhqui.

meːwki

up from bed; one who has gotten out of bed (see Molina)

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mexcalatl.

meʃkɑlɑːtɬ
Orthographic Variants: 
mexcalātl

the sap or juice of the maguey, used as an unfermented drink (see Karttunen)

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mexcalcocoyoc.

meʃkɑlkohkohyok
Orthographic Variants: 
mexcalcohcohyoc

a drunkard (see Karttunen)

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mexcalhuia.

meʃkɑlwiɑː
Orthographic Variants: 
mexcalhuiā

to rub alcohol, mescal on oneself; to rub mezcal on someone else (see Karttunen)

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mexcali.

baked maguey

Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 203.

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mexcalli.

meʃkɑlli

mezcal, a distilled alcoholic drink made by cooking the heart of the maguey plant (see Karttunen)

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Mēxco.

Mexico City.
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Mexi.

a person of Mexico City; plural: Mexitin, aka the Mexica (see attestations); the singular is given as mêxih and mêxihtin as the plural in the Gran Diccionario Náhuatl
https://gdn.iib.unam.mx/diccionario/mexi/54637

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Mexica.

the Mexica, or the Mexicas, an ethnic designation; referring to the people of Mexico City (plural of Mexicatl)

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Mexicatl.

meːʃihkɑtɬ

a Mexica, a person of Mexico; plural: the Mexica (also Mexicah, with the glottal stop), the people of Mexico (Lockhart); also, sometimes treated as a person's name
James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 225.

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Mexicatlalli.

meːʃihkɑtɬɑːlli

“Mexica land,” a civil category of unclear status
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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Mexicatlalpan.

the land of the Mexica

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Mexicayotl.

meːʃihkɑyoːtɬ
Orthographic Variants: 
mexicaiutl, mexicayutl

Mexican-ness, the Mexican state; the Mexica empire

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Mexico.

meːʃihko

a place name, the altepetl of the Mexica, Mexico Tenochtitlan, or Mexico City as it was considered by the Spaniards -- sometimes considered to include Tlatelolco, also inhabited by Mexica
James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 225.

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mexicopa.

Orthographic Variants: 
mexicopahuic, hueytepecpahuic, hueytepahuic

north, or toward Mexico City
(a direction given in documents from Coyoacan, which lay to the south of the city)

Rebecca Horn, Postconquest Coyoacan: Nahua-Spanish Relations in Central Mexico, 1519-1650 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997), 155.

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mexicopahuic.

Orthographic Variants: 
mexicopauic

toward Mexico City, in the direction of Mexico City (see Molina)

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Mexih.

Orthographic Variants: 
Mexi, Meci

one of the sacred names held by the divine force also known as Huitzilopochtli, taken as an ethnic name by the migrants who were carrying him and settling Mexico-Tenochtitlan
Gran Diccionario del Náhuatl, citing A. Wimmer (2004), who quotes from Launey and other sources, https://gdn.iib.unam.mx/diccionario/mexi/54637. Translation and paraphrasing here by Stephanie Wood

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