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miccacahualli.

Headword: 
miccacahualli.
Principal English Translation: 

an orphan; a stepdaughter (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
miccācāhualli
IPAspelling: 
mikkɑːkɑːwɑlli
Frances Karttunen: 

MICCĀCĀHUAL-LI orphan, stepdaughter / huérfano (Z), entenada (Z) [(1)Zp. 160]. The literal sense of this is ‘someone left behind by someone who has died.’ Z also has a variant in which the vowel of the second syllable is idiosyncratically raised to Ē . See MICCĀ-, CĀHUAL-LI.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 145.

themes: 
Family, Kinship, Descent