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apizmicoa.

Headword: 
apizmicoa.
Principal English Translation: 

to have diarrhea (see Molina); or, to be starving (see attestations)

Alonso de Molina: 

apitza. nin. (pret. oninapitz.) tener camaras.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 7r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

zan ica ome tonali ye oapizmicoaya = a los dos días ya estaban agonizando de hambre (Puebla, 1797)
Anales del Barrio de San Juan del Río; Crónica indígena de la ciudad de Puebla, xiglo XVII, eds. Lidia E. Gómez García, Celia Salazar Exaire, y María Elena Stefanón López (Puebla: Instituto de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades, BUAP, 2000), 102.

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