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miquini.

Headword: 
miquini.
Principal English Translation: 

someone or something mortal
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), 225.

IPAspelling: 
mikini
Alonso de Molina: 

miquini. cosa mortal. s. que muere.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 56v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Lockhart’s Nahuatl as Written: 

miqui, -ni. 225

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

miquini = mortal, de miqui, morir
Rémi Siméon, Diccionario de la lengua náhuatl o mexicana (Mexico: Siglo XXI, 1988), xli.

miquini = micqui = el que muere (Guatemala, 1637, documento en pipil)
Miguel León-Portilla, "Un Texto en Nahua Pipil de Guatemala, Siglo XVII," Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl 13 (1978), 35–47, ver la pág. 40.

themes: 
Death