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macehualtontli.

Headword: 
macehualtontli.
Principal English Translation: 

a poor commoner (macehualli with a diminutive ending)

Attestations from sources in English: 

nimacehualtontli, nitlahpaltontli, ahtle = a poor commoner, I am an insignificant person, I am nothing
Fray Juan Bautista, Sermonario, 1606, f. 583v.; translation by Mark Z. Christensen, "Nahua and Maya Catholicisms: Ecclesiastical Texts and Local Religion in Colonial Central Mexico and Yucatan," Ph.D. Dissertation, Pennsylvania State University, 2010, Appendix D, 10.

themes: 
Social Hierarchy, Commoners, Elites