Principal English Translation:
to punch a hole, to pierce, to bore a hole through (see Molina)
Alonso de Molina:
coyonia. nitla. (pret. onitlacoyoni.) agujerar, o horadar algo.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 24r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.
Frances Karttunen:
COYŌNIĀ vt to perforate something, to make holes in something / agujerear, o horadar algo (M). See COYŌN(I). COYŌNILIĀ applic. COYŌNIĀ
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 43.
Attestations from sources in English:
Cuix quenmanian otitecalcoyoni? yohualtica tepan oticalac? otitecochtlaz, in motlacatecolotlatol yca? inic otichtequito inic oticmamato in teaxca in tetlatqui? = Did you sometime make a hole in a house, entering in on people during the night casting them into sleep with your diabolical words of enchantment so that you stole and carried away the goods and property of others?
Bartolomé de Alva, A Guide to Confession Large and Small in the Mexican Language, 1634, eds. Barry D. Sell and John Frederick Schwaller, with Lu Ann Homza (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1999), 111.
Attestations from sources in Spanish:
Cuix quenmanian otitecalcoyoni? yohualtica tepan oticalac? otitecochtlaz, in motlacatecolotlatol yca? inic otichtequito inic oticmamato in teaxca in tetlatqui? = Fuiste a robar alguna noche, agujerando la casa, echando sueño a los dueños dellas, con palabras diabolicas, de hechizo, ò encantam[i]ento, con lo qual facilmente tubiste lugar de traerte todo lo que hallaste?
Bartolomé de Alva, A Guide to Confession Large and Small in the Mexican Language, 1634, eds. Barry D. Sell and John Frederick Schwaller, with Lu Ann Homza (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1999), 110–111.
IDIEZ def. náhuatl:
nic. Macehualli, tecuani zo tlapiyalli quichihua ce tlacoyontli pan tlalli zo pan ce tlenhueli. “Alejandro quicoyonia ce acatl pampa ichocho quitlatlaniliah ce ahahuilli campa momachtia. ”
IDIEZ def. español:
A. persona, animal silvestre, o animal domestico hace un agujero en la tierra o en algun otra cosa. “Alejandro agujerea un carrizo porque su hermano le piden donde estudia.”
B. agujerea.