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milchiuhqui.

Headword: 
milchiuhqui.
Principal English Translation: 

one who labors in the field, a field worker, a farm worker; or, a farmer (see Molina)

IPAspelling: 
miːltʃiːwki
Alonso de Molina: 

milchiuhqui. gañan o labrador.
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.

Attestations from sources in English: 

See also Sahagún, the Florentine Codex, Book 10, Chapter 12.
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 10 -- The People, No. 14, Part 11, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1961), 41.