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macehualyetoca.

Headword: 
macehualyetoca.
Principal English Translation: 

to be seen as a servant, or a person with really bad luck (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
maceualyetoca
IPAspelling: 
mɑːseːwɑljetokɑ
Alonso de Molina: 

maceualyetoca. nino. (pret. oninomaceualyetocac.) tenerse por siervo, o por persona de baxa suerte.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 50v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

themes: 
Social Hierarchy, Commoners, Elites