mapilhuia. | Nahuatl Dictionary

Headword:

mapilhuia.

Principal English Translation:

to point a finger at someone (or something)
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), 224.

IPAspelling:

mɑhpilwiɑː

Alonso de Molina:

mapilhuia. nite. (pret. onitemapilhui.) mostrar, o señalar a otro conel dedo, o escoger, o elegir a alguno.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 52r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

mapilhuia. nitetla. (pret. onitetlamapilhui.) mostrar, o señalar a otro conel dedo, o escoger, o elegir a alguno.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 52r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

mapilhuia. nitla. (pret. onitlamapilhui.) señalar algo conel dedo mostrandolo a otros.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 52r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen:

MAHPILHUIĀ vt to signal to someone with one’s finger, to point something out to someone with one’s finger / mostrar o señalar a otro con el dedo o escoger o elegir a alguno (M), señalar algo con el dedo mostrándolo a otros (M) [(3)Tp. 189, (2)Zp. 115,189]. See MAHPIL-LI, -HUIĀ . MAHPILHUILIĀ applic. MAHPILHUIĀ MAHPILHUĪLŌ nonact. MAHPILHUIĀ
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 131.

Lockhart’s Nahuatl as Written:

mahpilhuia, nic. Class 3: ōnicmahpilhuih. applicative of mahpiloa. 224

Attestations from sources in English:

See an image that represents mapilhuia in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).

cēca ommapiloa, quinmapilhuia in macevalti, ommapiloa in vmpa omocenquixtique in amaxac = vigorously pointing their fingers, pointing at the people who were assembled at Amaxac
James Lockhart, We People Here: Nahuatl Accounts of the Conquest of Mexico, Repertorium Columbianum v. 1 (Los Angeles: UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 1993), 230.