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chichi.
Headword:
chichi.
Principal English Translation:
to breastfeed or suck (verb, see Molina); the breast
IPAspelling:
tʃiːtʃiː
Attestations from sources in English:
In aocmo meia chichioa: conjz, motetzotzonaz in tlaneloatl in tzaianalqujltic, njman tequjxqujtica qujpacaz in jchichioal = The nursing woman who no longer produces milk: She is to drink [an infusion of[ tzayanalquiltic root, which is to be pulverized with a stone. Then one is to wash her breasts with saltpeter. (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
ynic yezatepan oconic, quipatz quilizque ini chi chi hual yhuá quí quetz qui Xzquti lizquia = Ini:c ye za:te:pan o:coni:c quipa:tzquilizqueh in i:chi:chi:hual i:hua:n quiqui:xtilizquia in i:chi:chi: huala:yo:tl = So afterwards they squeezed out her milk, and her breast milk would emerge
chichioallic = breast
cioachichioalli = woman's breast
oquichchichioalli = man's breast
quauhtzotzocatl = old collapsed breast
ineixcauil in conechichioalli = characteristics of child's breast
tzotzocatic = undeveloped
in cioapilchichioalli = girl's breast
tomoltic = budding
ichpuchchichioalli = maiden's breast
xocotic = like fruit
xocotetic = like hard fruit
iôiollo = resilient
otztli ichichioal = pregnant womans [sic] breast
iacatlileoac = of darkened tips
têtepitztic = hard
mêmeia = milk flows
piloa = it hangs
ichichioal, uiuiiac = her breast [is] very long
memecapaltic = like tump lines
chichioalmecapalli = woman of long breasts
atoltic = soft
in quauhtzotzocatl = the much collapsed breast
tzotzocatic = collapsed
in cioachichioalli = the woman's breast
tlaoapaoa = nourishes
teoapaoa = it nourishes one
tlacaoapaoa = it nourishes man
mopatzca = it is milked
mochichi = it is sucked
quichichi = it suckles (central Mexico, sixteenth century)