millahcatl

Classical Nahuatl

Alternative forms

• mihlacatl
• millacatl
• mīllàcatl (Carochi)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

mīllahcatl (plural mīllahcah)

1. 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)

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 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