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miːllɑhkɑtɬ

a field worker

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.

planted field.

cultivated land; this is a term, possibly regional, that combines two types of agricultural land, milli and tlalli; while both terms are common, they are rarely well differentiated

miːllɑneːwiɑ
Orthographic Variants: 
millaneuia

to rent a parcel (see Molina)

miːllɑpiʃkɑlli

a cabin or hut for guards (see Molina)

a cabin or hut for guards (see Molina)

field people, people of the fields; i.e. campesinos (root = milli); the people who live in an area where there is an abundance of cultivated fields

(central Mexico, early seventeenth century)
Codex Chimalpahin: Society and Politics in Mexico Tenochtitlan, Tlatelolco, Culhuacan, and Other Nahuatl Altepetl in Central Mexico; The Nahuatl and Spanish Annals and Accounts Collected and Recorded by don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Susan Schroeder (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), vol. 2, 198–199.

miːlli
Orthographic Variants: 
mili, milly, mily

cultivated field, a land parcel under cultivation (see Molina, Karttunen, and Lockhart); typically, a maize field; also, a person's name, Milli (see Cline, attestations with English translations)

a sown field.

the level agricultural field; an agricultural parcel

a poor person who does not have even a small plot of farmland; or, a person who is wanting a plot of land to farm (see Molina)

the name or title of a high judge (see Sahagún); and Wimmer (2004) says it was the name of a man who was the ixiptlatl of a serpent (Gran Diccionario Náhuatl)

miːlnetetʃɑːnɑ

for properties to border one another

Orthographic Variants: 
milpa

in the maize field (see milli); milpa (without the final "n") entered Spanish as the equivalent of milli

miːlpɑneːkɑtɬ

a field hand or a villager (see Molina)

to keep the milpa, to guard it (see attestations)

one who works the milpa or guards the milpa (see attestations)

miːltepɑːntɬi

a boundary or wall separating plots of agricultural land (see Molina and Karttunen)

a name (attested male) in Tepetlaoztoc (sixteenth century, Tetzcoco)

a small agricultural field (see Molina)