a farm worker or a commoner (see Molina); literally, someone who lives from the woods, from the plants
Orthographic Variants:
quauhtica nemi, quiltica nemi.
Alonso de Molina:
quauhtica nemi, quiltica nemi. labrador o maceual. Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 87r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.