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machizti.

Headword: 
machizti.
Principal English Translation: 

to become known (Lockhart); something that is known or heard (see Molina/Platzmann)

James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 223.

Orthographic Variants: 
machisti
IPAspelling: 
mɑtʃistijɑ
Alonso de Molina: 

machizti. (pret. omachiztic.) cosa que se sabe o suena.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 50v. col. 2. Julius Platzmann edition, 1880.