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momachtiani.

Headword: 
momachtiani.
Principal English Translation: 

a scholar or a student (see Molina); one who is taught (see Rincón)

Alonso de Molina: 

momachtiani. aprendiz o estudiante.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 58v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

yn ipan 3. calli xihuitl. 1573. años. yn ohualla mexico. tenochtitlan yn tlacatl huehue Don Antonio. valleriano. tlamatini momachtiani Juez gouernador. = in the year 3 House, 1573, that the lord don Antonio Valeriano the elder, sage and scholar, came to Mexico Tenochtitlan appointed judge-governor in Tenochtitlan (1608, Central Mexico)
Annals of His Time: Don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, James Lockhart, Susan Schroeder, and Doris Namala, eds. and transl. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006), 140–141.

Don Antonio valeriano... amo pilli çan momachtiani tlamatini yn itechpa Latin tlahtolli ynin ymontzin yn tlacatl Don diego huanitzin = don Antonio Valeriano... not a nobleman but a scholar learned in the Latin language. He was a son-in-law of the lord don Diego Huanitzin. (central Mexico, early seventeenth century)
Codex Chimalpahin: Society and Politics in Mexico Tenochtitlan, Tlatelolco, Culhuacan, and Other Nahuatl Altepetl in Central Mexico; The Nahuatl and Spanish Annals and Accounts Collected and Recorded by don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Susan Schroeder (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), vol. 1, 176–177.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

momachtiani = el que se enseña (Tetzcoco, 1595)
Antonio del Rincón, Arte mexicana, 34, reproducida digitalmente por el Internet Archive, http://archive.org/stream/artemexicana00rincrich/artemexicana00rincrich_....

mumachti:at = momachtiani
Ne mumachti:at quitapo:at ne ta:pech. = Los alumnos abren la puerta. (Sonsonate, El Salvador, Nahuat or Pipil, s. XX)
Tirso Canales, Nahuat (San Salvador: Universidad de El Salvador, Editorial Universitaria, 1996), 17–18.

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