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Letter M: Displaying 1841 - 1860 of 2902

mīlli.

a sown field.
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millón.

Orthographic Variants: 
milon

"1576 nican ipan ixhuitl yn omochiuh [....] cocoliztli yc opa yn opeuhqui ypā [.....] yn omomiquili macehualtzintli ome milones .... (p. 808)" = 1576. In this year a [....] sickness broke out for the second time. It began in [....]; two million commoners died." (Anales de Puebla y Tlaxcala, no. 2, 1524–1674)
Frances Krug, "The Nahuatl Annals of the Tlaxcala-Puebla Region," ch. 3, p. 53, Ph.D. Dissertation draft written in the 1980s, with transcriptions and translations approved by James Lockhart. Cited here by SW.

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milmanalli.

the level agricultural field; an agricultural parcel

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milmayanani.

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)

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Milnahuatl.

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)

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milnetechana.

miːlnetetʃɑːnɑ

for properties to border one another

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milpan.

Orthographic Variants: 
milpa

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

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milpanecatl.

miːlpɑneːkɑtɬ

a field hand or a villager (see Molina)

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milpia.

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

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milpixqui.

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

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miltepantli.

miːltepɑːntɬi

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

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Miltepitl.

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

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miltepito.

a small agricultural field (see Molina)

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miltia.

miːltiɑː
Orthographic Variants: 
mīltiā

to prepare a cultivated field for oneself (see Karttunen)

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mīltiā.

1. to work anotherʻs field. 2. to prepare an old or new field for planting.
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mīltic.

inside the house enclosure.
# Lugar donde está cercado porque hay sembradillos o no hay sembradillos o solamante para que nada entre. “Lidia cuando siembra una flor, le dicen que lo siembre en un lugar cerrado porque si lo siembra afuera, lo van a picotear los pollos”.
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miltomatl.

small, wild tomatoes (see Sahagún)

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miltontli.

miːltoːntɬi

a small plot of agricultural land (see Molina)

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milxocoa.

miːlʃokoɑ

to encroach upon the boundary of another person's agricultural plot (see Molina)

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milzacatl.

miːlsɑkɑtɬ
Orthographic Variants: 
mīlzacatl

forage, fodder (see Karttunen)

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