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mosiwɑːketski
Orthographic Variants: 
mociuaquetzqui

soul or spirit of women who died in childbirth

Susan Kellogg, Law and the Transformation of Aztec Culture, 1500-1700 (Norman and London: University of Oklahoma Press, 1995), 225.

mohsiwiɑː
Orthographic Variants: 
mociuia

to be worried, troubled, bothered

mosiwihtinemi
Orthographic Variants: 
mociuitinemi

to go about negotiating things or to feel uneasy (see Molina)

a character, crazy, extravagant, or irresponsible (see attestations)

moknoːmɑtini

humble or poor (see Molina)

to achieve something for oneself (see Molina)

to be contrite, humble; also, a name, attested as male in 16th-c. Mexico City (see attestations)

Orthographic Variants: 
mocochtlapiquiani

to be sick, is sick (see Molina)

the serpent dance (see attestations from Sahagún)

the name of a deity who was also called Tezcatlipoca, Yaotzin, Necoc Yaotl, and Nezahualpilli

(central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 3 -- The Origin of the Gods, Part IV, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1978), 12.