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iztlacmina.

Headword: 
iztlacmina.
Principal English Translation: 

for a snake to bite someone (see Karttunen)

IPAspelling: 
istɬɑkmiːnɑ
Alonso de Molina: 

iztlacmina. nite. (pret. oniteiztlacmin.) morder la vibora.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 49v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

IZTLACMĪN(A) vt for a snake to bite someone / morder la vÍbora (M) [(1)Cf. 96r]. See IZTLAC-TLI, MĪN(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 125.

themes: 
Animals, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, Fish, etc.