M

Letter M: Displaying 1801 - 1820 of 2895
Orthographic Variants: 
miuiotlazqui

a bird that has molted (see Molina)

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

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.

Orthographic Variants: 
mitl, mill

one thousand
(a loanword from Spanish)

a miracle
(a loanword from Spanish)

a field that is no longer planted, and is overgrown.
to enter s.o.ʻs planted field.

a type of frog

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.

miːltʃiːmɑlli

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

miːltʃipɑːwɑ
Orthographic Variants: 
mīlchipāhua

to clear land for cultivation (see Karttunen)

miːltʃiːwki

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

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.

a type of landholding, usually claimed by individuals or households, according to older studies (e.g. a 1904 publication from the Smithsonian); relevant for revealing Acolhua "survey metrology," as shown by Barbara J. Williams and Janice K. Pierce, "Evidence of Acolhua Science in Pictorial Land Records," in Texcoco: Prehispanic and Colonial Perspectives, eds. Jongsoo Lee and Galen Brokaw (Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2014), 147–164; see p. 149.

a type of racer lizard
Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter and Alicia Maria Houtrouw, "Book 11: Earthly Things", fol. 65v, Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/11/folio/65v/images/0 Accessed 26 October 2025.