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mahcehualli.

Headword: 
mahcehualli.
Principal English Translation: 

merit, recompense, fortune

Attestations from sources in English: 

ahmo nolhuil, ahmo nomahcehual = it is not of my merit (Juan Bautista, ca. 1599, Mexico City)
Susanne Klaus, Uprooted Christianity: The Preaching of the Christian Doctrine in Mexico, Based on Franciscan Sermons of the 16th Century Written in Nahuatl (Bonn: Bonner Amerikanistische Studien e. V. c/o Seminar für Völkerkunde, Universität Bonn, 1999), 247.

See also: 
-macehual.
macehualli.