millahcatl

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Classical Nahuatl

Alternative forms

Etymology

From mīllah (“place of fields”) +‎ -catl (“inhabitant”).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

mīllahcatl (plural mīllahcah)

farmer, peasant
- 1555, Alonso de Molina, Aqui comienca un vocabulario en la lengua castellana y mexicana, f. 14v:
  Aldeano. milla.tlacatl.millacatl.
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- 1555, Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, f. 151v:
  Labrador ruſtico. millacatl.millatlacatl.milpanecatl.
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- 1640–41: Bartolomé de Alva (trans.), El animal profeta y dichoso patricida, f. 21r.
  çan itzotzomà ōhuālyetià yn iuhqui mīhlàcatl
  (he came dressed just in his rags as though he were a field hand)
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- 1645, Horacio Carochi, Arte de la lengua mexicana con la declaración de los adverbios della, f. 57r:
  De Mīllâ, que significa lugar de sementeras, se forma mīllàcatl, el labrador
  (From mīllâ, which means a place with cultivated fields, is formed mīllàcatl, farmer.)
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References

Carochi, Horacio (2001) James Lockhart, transl., Grammar of the Mexican Language, with an Explanation of its Adverbs (1645), 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. with Louise M. Burkhart and 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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