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atonahui.

Headword: 
atonahui.
Principal English Translation: 

to have chills and fever (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
ātōnahui
IPAspelling: 
ɑːtoːnɑwi
Alonso de Molina: 

atonaui. n. (pret. onatonauh.) tener calentura con frio
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2. Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 9r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

ĀTŌNAHU(I) pret: ĀTŌNAUH to have chills and fever / tener calentura o frío (M)[(1)Cf.106v]. See Ā-TL, TŌNA.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 14.

Attestations from sources in English: 

atonauia = to have a fever, to be sick
Daniel Garrison Brinton, Ancient Nahuatl Poetry: Containing the Nahuatl Text of XXVII Ancient Mexican Poems (1887), 150.

themes: 
Health, Sickness, Wellness, Medicine