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macic.

Headword: 
macic.
Principal English Translation: 

something whole, solid, certain (see Karttunen and Molina)

IPAspelling: 
mɑhsik
Alonso de Molina: 

macic. cosa entera, o maciza.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 50v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

MAHCIC something whole, solid, certain / cosa entera o maciza (M) This is implied by MAHCITICAH and MAHCITOC. See AHCI.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 130.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

macic = entero
Rémi Siméon, Diccionario de la lengua náhuatl o mexicana (Mexico: Siglo XXI, 1996), xxxvi.