a small grilled fish Gran Diccionario Náhuatl, citing Wimmer 2004, who draws from the Florentine Codex, Book 11. Translated here to English by Stephanie Wood.
people die, many die (impersonal of miqui, to die) James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 225.
to kill, or to beat or mistreat (literally, to make someone die)
The Tlaxcalan Actas: A Compendium of the Records of the Cabildo of Tlaxcala (1545-1627), eds. James Lockhart, Frances Berdan, and Arthur J.O. Anderson (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1986), 105.