mecatl

Related to mecāniā (“to hang”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmekat͡ɬ/

mecatl

1. cord, rope
   • 1571, Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, f. 55r. col. 1:

     mecatl. cordel, o ſoga, o açote de cordeles.
     (mecatl. a cord, a rope, or a cord whip.)

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. whip
   • 1571, Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, f. 55r. col. 1:

     mecatl. cordel, o ſoga, o açote de cordeles.
     (mecatl. a cord, a rope, or a cord whip.)

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

3. (possessed) concubine
4. (inalienable possession) lineage

• Spanish: mecate

• Frances Karttunen (1992), An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl, University of Oklahoma Press, page 142
• Carlos Montemayor et al. (2009), Diccionario del náhuatl en el español de México, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Cognate to Classical Nahuatl mecatl

mecatl

1. rope, cord.

• tepozmecatl

Cf. Classical Nahuatl mecatl (“cord; concubine”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈmekat͜ɬ]

mecatl (plural mecame, possessed imeca)

1. cord
2. (possessed) male lover besides one's husband

• isohuapi̱l (“mistress”)

• Brewer, Forrest; Brewer, Jean G. (1962), Vocabulario mexicano de Tetelcingo, Morelos: Castellano-mexicano, mexicano-castellano (Serie de vocabularios indígenas Mariano Silva y Aceves; 8)‎^[1] (in Spanish), México, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano; Secretaría de Educación Pública, published 1971, pages 63, 81, 131, 141