atemi. | Nahuatl Dictionary

atemi.

Headword:

atemi.

Principal English Translation:

to be a person prone to accumulating too much water in the body; or, to be insatiable (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants:

ātēmi

Alonso de Molina:

atemi. n. (pret. onaten.) ser ydropico.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 7v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English:

atemi = it becomes dropsical (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 10 -- The People, No. 14, Part 11, 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, 1961), 112.

IDIEZ morfema:

ātēmi.

IDIEZ traduc. inglés:

for one’s stomach to be full of water.

IDIEZ def. náhuatl:

ni. Macehualli, tlapiyalli zo tecuani tlahuel aixhui. “Quemman niatemitoc axhueli nimotlaloa. ”

IDIEZ def. español:

A. Una persona o animal toma mucho agua. “Cuando estoy llena de agua no puedo correr”.

IDIEZ morfología:

ātl, tēmi.

IDIEZ gramática:

tlach1.