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miticac.

Headword: 
miticac.
Principal English Translation: 

penetrated by an arrow (e.g. a tree on a boundary that has been marked as such); from mitl + icac

(sixteenth century, Quauhtinchan)
Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca, eds. Paul Kirchhoff, Lina Odena Güemes, y Luis Reyes García (México: CISINAH, INAH-SEP, 1976), 157.

Orthographic Variants: 
minticac
Attestations from sources in English: 

In the Historia Tolteca Chichimeca, after the occupation of Tlachihualtepetl (at Cholula, apparently), the boundaries (icxicohuatl) are indicated as different kinds of trees or plants, all of which have been "flechados" (in the Spanish translation, from minticac and miticac in the Nahuatl). The trees/plants are a pochotli, a mizquitli, an iczotli, and a cozamalometli. (sixteenth century, Quauhtinchan)
Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca, eds. Paul Kirchhoff, Lina Odena Güemes, y Luis Reyes García (México: CISINAH, INAH-SEP, 1976), 157.

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