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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.

miːleh
Orthographic Variants: 
mīleh

a possessor of cultivated land (see Karttunen)

miːlehkɑːtoːntɬi
miliːni
Orthographic Variants: 
milīni

to shine, sparkle, flare (see Karttunen)

miliːntiɑː
Orthographic Variants: 
milīntiā

to set something afire (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
milla ychan

a person who works the land, a villager (see Molina); literally, the "milpa is his/her home," someone whose home is among the cultivated fields

an agricultural worker or a villager (see Molina); literally, one who lives in a place of abundant cultivated lands

one who works in agriculture; or, a villager (see Molina); literally, a person where there is an abundance of cultivated land

miːllɑh
Orthographic Variants: 
mīllah

a place where there is an abundance of cultivated land (see Karttunen)