M | Nahuatl Dictionary

Letter M: Displaying 1881 - 1900 of 2878

mimillachia.

to be out and about visiting one's land, estates/properties (see Molina)

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mimiloa.

mihmiloɑ

to roll; to roll over repeatedly; roll on the ground; or to tip over or knock over

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mimiloā.

1. to roll up a sleeping mat or paper. 2. for a spoiled child to writhe on the ground.

#una persona dobla un petate o papel grande. “doblo el petate porque estorba”. 2. Niño del que se enoja se acuesta y empieza a voltearse. “el hermano de Aracely es muy corajudo y siempre se revuelca en el suelo cuando se enoja.”

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mimilpanoa.

miːmiːlpɑnoɑ

to be out visiting their estate/property (see Molina)

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mimiltic nabos.

a long turnip (see Molina)

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mimiltic.

mimiltik

round like a column, pilar (see Molina)

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mimiltic.

not yet bloomed flower whose petals are rolled up; rolled up snake or other thing.

# Una cosa o serpiente que está enrollado. “María enrollo muy bonito mi lazo cuando lo había prestado”.

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mimimiltic.

round

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mimina.

miːmiːnɑ

to shoot an arrow (see Molina)

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mimiqui.

miːmiki

to have an attack (see Karttunen); to die

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mimiquiliztli.

miːmikilistɬi

loss of consciousness

Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 287.

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mimiquixuch.

severe sickness, to always appear very ill, almost to the point of death (see Molina)

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mimitetl.

mimitetɬ

bone (see Karttunen)

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Mimixcoa.

"prototypical sacrificial victims" (referring to the work of Guilem Olivier, 2010); in the story of the First Sacred War, the Mimixcoa fail to find food for the emerging sun, and so they are sacrificed; quail were sacrificed, too, for failing to "guess the direction of" the sun's appearance

Elena Mazzetto, "Quail in the Religious Life of the Ancient Nahuas," in Susan Milbrath and Elizabeth Baquedano, eds., Birds and Beasts of Ancient Mesoamerica. Denver: University Press of Colorado, 2023, 204.

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