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meme.

Headword: 
meme.
Principal English Translation: 

to carry loads on one's back (see Molina; see also our entry, mama)

Orthographic Variants: 
mama
IPAspelling: 
meːme
Alonso de Molina: 

meme. (pret. onitlameme.) lleuar carga acuestas.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 55v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

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

A variation on mama, to carry. See also tlameme, carrier.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

ya quivalmeme yn covitl quixexeloto = ya que traía cargando la leña que fue a repartir (Tlaxcala, 1564)
Catálogo de documentos escritos en náhuatl, siglo XVI, vol. I (Tlaxcala: Gobierno del Estado de Tlaxcala y el Archivo Histórico del Estado de Tlaxcala, 2013), 31.