M | Nahuatl Dictionary

Letter M: Displaying 1661 - 1680 of 2902

miccahuacatiliztli.

mikkɑːwɑhkɑːtilistɬi

Orthographic Variants:

miccauacatiliztli

the cloth decorations that symbolize death and that are put on the dead to wear (see Molina)

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miccahuacayotl.

mikkɑːwɑhkɑːjoːtɬ

Orthographic Variants:

miccauacayotl

to be in mourning, to be wearing clothing to express the pain from a deceased (see Molina)

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miccahuati.

mikkɑːwɑːti

to mourn for a dead person, to hold obsequies, to go in mourning

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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miccahuemmana.

mikkɑːwemmɑnɑ

Orthographic Variants:

miccauemmana

to offer an oblation or an offering to the dead (see Molina)

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miccailhuitl.

Orthographic Variants:

miqueylhuitl

the day of the dead (see attestations)

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one of the boundaries of the Nonohualca of Tollan (Tula)
Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca, 4v. Taken from the image of the folio published in Dana Leibsohn, Script and Glyph: Pre-Hispanic History, Colonial Bookmaking, and the Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca (Washington D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks, 2009), 65. Paleography and regularization of this toponym by Stephanie Wood.

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miccapan.

a funeral

(ca. 1582 Mexico City)
Luis Reyes García, ¿Como te confundes? ¿Acaso no somos conquistados? Anales de Juan Bautista (Mexico: Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, Biblioteca Lorenzo Boturini Insigne y Nacional Basílica de Guadalupe, 2001), 180–181.

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miccapantlaza.

mikkɑːpɑntɬɑːsɑ

to unearth the dead body (see Molina)

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miccaquixtia.

mikkɑːkiːʃtiɑ

to unearth a dead body (see Molina)

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miccatataca.

mikkɑːtɑtɑkɑ

to unearth a dead body (see Molina)

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miccateca.

mikkɑːteːkɑ

Orthographic Variants:

miccātēca

to be stunned, dazed, unconscious; to daze, stun someone (see Karttunen)

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miccatemamaquiliztli.

mikkɑːteːmɑhmɑkilistɬi

testament commands (see Molina)

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miccatepoztli.

Orthographic Variants:

miccatepuztli

church bell; literally, dead-person-metal or death-metal, as the bells tolled fairly constantly in the sixteenth century as a result of all the loss of life during the epidemics (see Lockhart)

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