momik? mimik? (Insane, crazy, or kook customer?)

[Mendell]

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Susan Mendell
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At 07:09 PM 10/18/99 -0600, you wrote:
>Jackie,
>Don't unsubscribe yet.  I cannot begin to describe how much I have learned
>just "listening-in". The knowlege collected in the minds on this list is
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>Mike Gaby
>San Diego
>
>
>>From: "Meloche, Jackie" <jackie.meloche at ualberta.ca>
>>Reply-To: nahuat-l at server.umt.edu
>>To: Multiple recipients of list <nahuat-l at server.umt.edu>
>>Subject: RE: momik? mimik?  (Insane, crazy, or kook customer?)
>>Date: Mon, 18 Oct 1999 11:27:15 -0600
>>
>>You people are all way ahead of me.  I have always been fascinated by
>>Aztecs, but I don't have your expertise. I mostly study their culture and
>>calendar and mysticism.
>>  How do I get removed from the list?
>>
>>		-----Original Message-----
>>		From:	Craig Berry [mailto:cberry at cinenet.net]
>>		Sent:	Monday, October 18, 1999 11:12 AM
>>		To:	Multiple recipients of list
>>		Subject:	Re: momik? mimik?  (Insane, crazy, or kook
>>customer?)
>>
>>		On Mon, 18 Oct 1999, Matthew Montchalin wrote:
>>
>>		> Richard Haly wrote:
>>		> | I dunno. Back when I worked at Chez Panisse, we called
>>such people Los
>>		> | Angelinos. But maybe the Nahuatlahto said something like
>>"miquic" (a dead
>>		> | person) implying that he did not belong in this world.
>>		>
>>		> Well, I quizzed him on it again today, and he said it's
>>"mimiki" (however
>>		> you spell that in Spanish; the second vowel seems long,
>>and seems to bear
>>		> the stress).  There is definitely an 'i' on the end,
>>perhaps a long i.
>>
>>		Sounds like a distorted plural for "dead people" -- which
>>seems
>>		appropriate.
>>
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