M | Nahuatl Dictionary

Letter M: Displaying 1981 - 2000 of 2898

mixcoacalli.

a place where court musicians gathered to practice their drums, rattles, bells, flutes, and chants (see Sahagún)

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mixcoacuauhtli.

Orthographic Variants:

mixcoaquauhtli, mixcohuacuauhtli

Ornate Hawk-Eagle, a bird (see Hunn, attestations)

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a divine force, usually translated as Cloud Serpent; said in the Florentine Codex to be the only deity worshipped by the Chichimecs (Sahagún); also, a personal name taken by Nahua men
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 6 -- Rhetoric and Moral Philosophy, No. 14, Part 7, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1961), 34.

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Mixcoatlailotlac.

Orthographic Variants:

Miscovatlayllotlac

a personal name in what is now Morelos; attested as male; appears to be a compound of a Chichimec deity (Mixcoatl) and a magistrate's title (Tlailotlac)

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mixcuacua.

Orthographic Variants:

mixquaqua

for people to contend or quarrel with one another (see Molina)

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mīxcuateuhhuiā.

for a speck of s.t. to get in s.o.’s eye.

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mixcuepani.

miːʃkwepɑni

astray or misguided (see Molina)

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mixcuepqui.

miːʃkwepki

astray or misguided (see Molina)

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mixhuaqui.

miʃwɑːki

Orthographic Variants:

mixhuāqui

for fog or clouds to lift (see Karttunen)

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mixihui.

miːʃiwi

Orthographic Variants:

mixiui

to give birth (see Molina and Karttunen)

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mīxihui.

to an animal to give birth.

# animal silvestre y animal domestico hembra nace su hijo. “Carla le dijo a su papá que su puerco alomejor estaba pariendo en un monte cerca del arroyo porque no esta en su casa”.

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