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mimiyahuatzin.

Headword: 
mimiyahuatzin.
Principal English Translation: 

a type of brightly colored bird (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
mimiyāhuatzin
IPAspelling: 
mimiyɑːwɑtsin
Frances Karttunen: 

MIMIYĀHUATZIN a type of brightly colored bird / dominico (pájaro) (Z) [(2)Zp.47, 166]. M has mimiauatl for a type of honeycomb and the bee that makes it. In both attestations Z has the vowel of the fourth syllable marked long instead of the vowel of the third. The derivation is questionable. See MIYĀHUA-TL.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 148.

themes: 
Animals, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, Fish, etc.