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.