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milla ichan.

Headword: 
milla ichan.
Principal English Translation: 

a person who works the land, a villager (see Molina); literally, the "milpa is his/her home," someone whose home is among the cultivated fields

Orthographic Variants: 
milla ychan
Alonso de Molina: 

milla ychan. labrador o aldeano.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 56v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.