machtli

Classical Nahuatl

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /matʃtɬi/

Noun

machtli

  1. a nephew or niece of an uncle
    • 1547, Andrés de Olmos, Arte para aprender la lengua mexicana, ed. by Rémi Siméon (1875)
      Machtli, nomach, mi sobrino.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

See also
  • pillotl

References
  • Karttunen, Frances. (1983) An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl, University of Texas Press, p. 128.
  • Lockhart, James. (2001) Nahuatl as Written, Stanford University Press, p. 223.
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