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Letter M: Displaying 1821 - 1840 of 2898

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.

miːleh
Orthographic Variants: 
mīleh

a possessor of cultivated land (see Karttunen)

miːlehkɑːtoːntɬi

perhaps a painter or a painting of cultivated lands (combining milli and icuilolli); another related, potential construction is millacuilolli (combining milli and tlacuilolli)

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)

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.

Orthographic Variants: 
milacuilolli

a map or painting of cultivated lands (see Orozco y Berra in the attestations)

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.