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Letter M: Displaying 1901 - 1920 of 2878

mina.

miːnɑ

to shoot, stab, or poke someone

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.

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mīna1.

1. for the sun, the moon, a light, fire or a candle to light one’s way. 2. for s.o. to light s.o. else’s way.
#sol, luna, foco, fuego, y vela una persona le enseña a un animal doméstico o silvestre y alguna cosa donde está oscuro. “ cuando vamos al baile lejos, la luna lo ilumina con sus rayos solares el camino donde está oscuro”. 2. Una persona enseña a alguien, algún animal doméstico o silvestre y alguna cosa con un foco donde está oscuro. “una noche salieron nuestros puercos donde los teníamos encerrados, para encontrarlos pedimos prestado mochas lámparas.”
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mīna2.

to stick s.t. with a sharp object.
# una persona pica a alguien, una animal silvestre, una animal domestico y una cosa con su dedo o con otra cosa que este delgado de la punta. “cuando Mario mata su tío siempre le dice que chonce al puerco porque el no batalla”.
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minacachalli.

a three-pronged harpoon, like a trident (see attestations)

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minas.

mines (see attestations)

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minero.

mine worker; or mine owner
(a loanword from Spanish)

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mini.

miːni
Orthographic Variants: 
mīni

to prick, pierce something (see Karttunen)

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minilia.

miːniliɑː
Orthographic Variants: 
mīniliā

to inject someone with something (see Karttunen)

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ministro.

minister
(a loanword from Spanish)

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.

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mintontli.

mintoːntɬi

great-great-grandparent
Digital Florentine Codex, Book 10, f. 4v. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/book/10/folio/4v

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mintotli.

great-grandfather

Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Prímeros Memoríales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 251.

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mintzitzin.

a medicinal shrub with red stalks, peach-like leaves, and white flowers; known to grow near Uruapan, Michoacan

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mipatli.

miːpɑhtɬi
Orthographic Variants: 
mipahtli

black hellebore (see Molina)

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miquetl.

death; a deceased person

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miqui.

miki

to die (see Molina); he or she dies, it dies

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miqui.

to die.
# una persona, animal silvestre y animal domestico termina su vida. “mi perro se murió porque no comía”.
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miquiantia.

Orthographic Variants: 
miquiantia

to take charge of a business, to give responsibility for a business to someone (see Molina)

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miquiliztli.

mikilistɬi

death or dying (see Molina and Karttunen); see also miquiztli.

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miquilizyeyecoa.

mikilisyehyekoɑː
Orthographic Variants: 
miquilizyehyecoā

to have a brush with death (see Karttunen)

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miquini.

mikini

someone or something mortal
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.

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