pilli

• IPA^(key): /ˈpilː.i/

pilli (animate, plural pipiltin)

1. A noble, a nobleman or woman.
   • 1555: Alonso de Molina, Aqui comienca vn vocabulario en la lengua castellana y mexicana, f. 181r.

     Noble por fama conocido. pilli.mauizçotl.

     (A noble, (someone) known by fame. pilli.mauizçotl.)

   • 1571: Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana, f. 81v. col. 2.

     Pilli. cuallero, o noble perſona.

     (Pilli. a knight, a noble person.)

   • c1600: Anonymous, Anónimo mexicano, f. 28v.

     auh ynin Pipiltin chichimeca, omo çecan xe lo que. ynic nican cecapal huíc tezcôco,

     (And these Chichimec nobles separeted themselves, coming here by way of Tetzcoco.)

2. (chiefly in compounds or derivatives) child

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Vocative: pillé

• Frances Karttunen (1992) An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl, University of Oklahoma Press, page 195
• Alonso de Molina (2008) Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana (1571), Mexico: Editorial Porrúa, page 81

• IPA^(key): /ˈpilːi/
• Hyphenation: pil‧li

pilli

1. whistle (device)
2. pipe (musical instrument)
3. drinking straw, straw
4. (colloquial) bag (breathalyzer)

• (whistle): vihellin
• (drinking straw): juomapilli
• (breathalyzer): alkometri

• pillike
• pillittää

• pili (not to be confused with)

pilli

1. (dialectal form) nominative plural masculine form of pills

pilli (pilli)

1. A small church, a Chapel