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millalli.

Headword: 
millalli.
Principal English Translation: 

cultivated land; this is a term, possibly regional, that combines two types of agricultural land, milli and tlalli; while both terms are common, they are rarely well differentiated

Attestations from sources in English: 

se millali se anega calaqui xinachtli = one millalli into which can enter one fanega of seed (Xocotitlan, Tlalmanalco, 1722)
James Lockhart collection, in a folder called "Land and Economy," citing AGN Tierras 2550, exp. 8, f. 7r. English translation proposed by Stephanie Wood.

millalin nahui pedaso nochica clalalin [sic] maquilin pedaso = four pieces of millalli with five pieces of house land (callalli) (Tlapitzahuaya, near Chalco, 1723)
James Lockhart collection, in a folder called "Land and Economy," citing AGN Tierras 2554, exp. 4, f. 23r. English translation proposed by Stephanie Wood.

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