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chichinaquiliztli.

Headword: 
chichinaquiliztli.
Principal English Translation: 

pain or torment; ache, fatigue (see Molina)

Alonso de Molina: 

chichinaquiliztli. dolor o tormento.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 19v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

chichinaquiliztli. dolor, o fatiga.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 20r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

in titonehuatinemih, tichichinacatinemih = we go about hurting, we go about aching (early sixteenth century, Central Mexico)
Louise M. Burkhart, Before Guadalupe: The Virgin Mary in Early Colonial Nahuatl Literature, Institute for Mesoamerican Studies Monograph 13 (Albany: University at Albany, 2001), 127.

chichinaquiliztli (noun) = torment, pain, suffering Daniel Garrison Brinton, Ancient Nahuatl Poetry: Containing the Nahuatl Text of XXVII Ancient Mexican Poems (1887), 152.

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