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macehualti.

Headword: 
macehualti.
Principal English Translation: 

to be blissful, or to achieve what one desired (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
maceualti
IPAspelling: 
mɑːseːwɑlti
Alonso de Molina: 

maceualti. no. (pret. onomaceualtic.) ser dichoso, o alcanzar lo que desea.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 50v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

maceualti (defective verb) = to merit; to be happy
Daniel Garrison Brinton, Ancient Nahuatl Poetry: Containing the Nahuatl Text of XXVII Ancient Mexican Poems (1877), 156.

themes: 
Emotions