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mahuiztic.

Headword: 
mahuiztic.
Principal English Translation: 

amazing, admirable, good, fine, marvelous, splendid

Orthographic Variants: 
mauiztic
IPAspelling: 
mɑwistik
Alonso de Molina: 

mauiztic. cosa marauillosa y de estima.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 54v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

MAHUIZTIC something marvelous, awesome, worthy of esteem / cosa maravillosa y de estima (M) See MAHUIZTI.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 133.

Lockhart’s Nahuatl as Written: 

something marvelous, splendid, fine, worthy of respect. mahuiztli, -tic. 223
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.

Attestations from sources in English: 

mahuiztic = [it was] splendid
Here in This Year: Seventeenth-Century Nahuatl Annals of the Tlaxcala-Puebla Valley, ed. and transl. Camilla Townsend, with an essay by James Lockhart (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010), 65.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

sabado yohuac tlatlac çe quahuitl huel mahuiztic = El sábado por la noche se quemó un "árbol" muy hermoso (Tlaxcala, 1662–1692)
Juan Buenaventura Zapata y Mendoza, Historia cronológica de la Noble Ciudad de Tlaxcala, transcripción paleográfica, traducción, presentación y notas por Luis Reyes García y Andrea Martínez Baracs (Tlaxcala y México: Universidad Autónoma de Tlaxcala, Secretaría de Extensión Universitaria y Difusión Cultural, y Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, 1995), 332–333.