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to pinch s.o. or an animal.
#Nic. Una persona le jala y le aprieta un poco de piel a alguien o un animal domestico. “Martín pellizca su hermano menor porque juega mucho con las niñas”.
for clothing to shrink.
a narrow article of clothing, sack or bag.
a narrow article of clothing, sack or bag.
small person, animal or thing.
Orthographic Variants: 
tziqui, tziquitl, tziquitzin

a little bit, just a little; when combined with a noun, this becomes an adjective; if the first syllable is doubled, the result is even more diminutive (see attestations)

appelative of endearment for a child.
tsitsiːkɑ

to swarm; to fit something tightly through a small hole (see Molina); or, to stuff something tight, to compress something in a container (see Karttunen)

to be in the midst of a swarm (see Molina)

tsiːtsikɑːswiɑː
Orthographic Variants: 
tzitzicazuia

to sting someone with stinging nettles (see Molina); to punish someone by stinging him with nettles (see Karttunen)

This prickly, edible herb (nettles) is pictured and glossed in the Florentine Codex Book 11, folio 134r., and described on folio 135v. It grows at the water's edge. It can be cooked in a pot.

Sahagún, Bernardino de, Antonio Valeriano, Alonso Vegerano, Martín Jacobita, Pedro de San Buenaventura, Diego de Grado, Bonifacio Maximiliano, Mateo Severino, et al. Historia general de las cosas de Nueva España (Florentine Codex), Ms. Mediceo Palatino 218–20, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Florence, MiBACT, 1577. Available at Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter, Alicia Maria Houtrouw, Kevin Terraciano, Jeanette Peterson, Diana Magaloni, and Lisa Sousa, bk. 11, fol. 134r. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/11/folio/134r . Accessed 18 November 2025.

s.t. fermented.
# Una cosa dulce echada a perder, se hace agrio y amargo. “Mis familiares cuando muelen siempre dejan un poco de agua de caña en un paila porque quieren que se haga en vino”.

to punish, correct, or arrest someone (see Molina)

tsiːtsikɑːstɬi

nettle(s) (see Molina and Karttunen)

to swell from brushing against stinging nettle (see Molina)

to be in a place full of nettles

(central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Thelma Sullivan, "Tlatoania and tlatocayotl in the Sahagún manuscripts," Estudios de Cultura Nahuatl 14 (1980), 225–238. See esp. p. 227.

tsihtsiknoɑː
Orthographic Variants: 
tzihtzicnoā

to sob, sigh, hiccup (see Karttunen)

tsitsikoɑː
Orthographic Variants: 
tzitzicoā

to detain someone (see Karttunen)

tsitsiktoːn

an herb that was used to reduce chest pain; also helped with the incipient contraction of the knees

Martín de la Cruz, Libellus de medicinalibus indorum herbis; manuscrito azteca de 1552; segun traducción latina de Juan Badiano; versión española con estudios comentarios por diversos autores (Mexico: Fondo de Cultural Económica; Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, 1991), 41 [27v], 53 [36v.].