millahcatl

Classical Nahuatl

Alternative forms

Etymology

mīllah "place of fields" + -catl "inhabitant"

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /miːllahkatɬ/
  • IPA(key): /miːhlahkatɬ/

Noun

mīllahcatl (plural mīllahcah)

  1. A farmer; peasant.

References

  • Carochi, Horacio (2001) Grammar of the Mexican Language, with an Explanation of its Adverbs (1645), trans. and ed. by James Lockhart, Stanford: Stanford University Press, pages 220–221
  • Karttunen, Frances (1983) An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl, Austin: University of Texas Press, page 147
  • Sell, Barry D.; Louise M. Burkhart; Elizabeth R. Wright (eds. and trans.) (2008) Nahuatl Theater, Volume 3: Spanish Golden Age Drama in Mexican Translation, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, page 181
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