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Letter M: Displaying 1801 - 1820 of 2902

mihuiotepeuhqui.

Orthographic Variants: 
miuiotepeuhqui

a bird that has just molted, or lost its feathers (see Molina)

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mihuioti.

Orthographic Variants: 
miuioti

a feathered bird, a bird that has a lot of feathers (see Molina)

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mihuiotlazqui.

Orthographic Variants: 
miuiotlazqui

a bird that has molted (see Molina)

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mihxāmiā.

to wash one’s face.
# una persona lava su cara. “me lavo la cara porque tengo demasiado lagaña”.
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mihyēxa.

to pass gas.
#una persona, un animal doméstico o silvestre saca aire por su trasero cuando está muy inflado o cuando lleva una cosa que está hechado a perder.”
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mihyōcui.

to breathe; to inhale.
#una persona, un animal doméstico o silvestre respira el aire con la nariz o con la boca. “ no puedo respirar bien porque tengo la nariz tapada.”
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mihyōtiā.

for s.t. to give off an odor.
A. huele una persona, un animal silvestre y domesticado y una cosa. “Un hombre cuando trabaja huele mucho a sudor”. B. Huele, apesta.
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mihzāmiā.

to wash one’s face.
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mihzōtla.

to vomit.
A. Persona, animal domestico o animal silvestre saca lo que ha comido o lo que ha tomado. “Mi papa cuando toma siempre vomita porque no le hace bien el alcohol en su estomago” B. Vomitar.
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Mijangos.

a Spanish family name; one fray Juan Mijangos was an early seventeenth-century Augustinian nahuatlato

See Sell's comments in Bartolomé de Alva, A Guide to Confession Large and Small in the Mexican Language, 1634, eds. Barry D. Sell and John Frederick Schwaller, with Lu Ann Homza (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1999), 20.

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mil.

Orthographic Variants: 
mitl, mill

one thousand
(a loanword from Spanish)

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milagro.

a miracle
(a loanword from Spanish)

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mīlcāhualli.

a field that is no longer planted, and is overgrown.
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mīlcalaqui.

to enter s.o.ʻs planted field.
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milcalatl.

a type of frog

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milchilli.

miːltʃiːlli

a type of chile apparently cultivated in association with maize (hence the milli, or field, element) (Valley of Mexico, 1570–1587)
The Mexican Treasury: The Writings of Dr. Francisco Hernández, ed. Simon Varey, transl. Rafael Chabrán, Cynthia L. Chamberlin, and Simon Varey (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000), 110.

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milchimalli.

miːltʃiːmɑlli

agricultural fields for the support of military activities(?), literally fields-shields

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milchipahua.

miːltʃipɑːwɑ
Orthographic Variants: 
mīlchipāhua

to clear land for cultivation (see Karttunen)

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milchiuhqui.

miːltʃiːwki

one who labors in the field, a field worker, a farm worker; or, a farmer (see Molina)

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milcocolli.

Orthographic Variants: 
milconcoli, milcocoli

land dimensions following the perimeter, or quadrilaterals; a type of cadaster

("contour, figure des terres, des propriétés")
from Aubin; see http://nahuatl_french.fracademic.com/14444/MILCOCOLLI

(Tepetlaoztoc, mid-sixteenth century)
Barbara J. Williams and H. R. Harvey, The Códice de Santa María Asunción: Facsimile and Commentary: Households and Lands in Sixteenth-Century Tepetlaoztoc (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1997), 67.

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