M | Nahuatl Dictionary

Letter M: Displaying 1721 - 1740 of 2895

michpipilo.

a person who fishes with a hook (see Molina)

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michpipiloa.

to fish with a hook (see Molina)

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michpipiloani.

a person who fishes with a hook (see Molina)

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michteuhtli.

a small grilled fish
Gran Diccionario Náhuatl, citing Wimmer 2004, who draws from the Florentine Codex, Book 11. Translated here to English by Stephanie Wood.

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michtlaoyo.

a pastry filled with fish (see Molina)

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michtlapictli.

fish wrapped in maize husks

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michtlazolli.

mitʃtɬɑhsolli

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michtlahzolli

small fresh water fish abundant in Michoacan (see Karttunen)

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michuacan.

mitʃwɑhkɑːn

Orthographic Variants:

michhuahcān

place name Michoacan (see Karttunen)

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michuacatl.

mitʃwɑhkɑtɬ

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michhuahcatl

resident of Michoacan (see Karttunen)

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michuacayotl.

mitʃwɑhkɑyoːtɬ

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michhuahcayōtl

quality, thing pertaining to Michoacan (see Karttunen)

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a type of fish (Chirostoma)
Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter and Alicia Maria Houtrouw, "Book 11: Earthly Things", fol. 66v, Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/11/folio/66v/images/0 Accessed 26 October 2025.

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miciuhcachihua.

Orthographic Variants:

miciuhcachiua

something that is made or done easily (see Molina)

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micnizpolihui.

Orthographic Variants:

miqnizpolihui, miqnizpoliui

to be metaphorically destroyed inside due to a death (see Molina)

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micoa.

Orthographic Variants:

micohua

people die, many die (impersonal of miqui, to die)
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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