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mazati.

Headword: 
mazati.
Principal English Translation: 

to become bestial, literally to turn into a deer

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: 
maçati
IPAspelling: 
mɑsɑːti
Alonso de Molina: 

mazati. ni. (pret. onimazatic.) tornarse bestia el hombre.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 50r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Lockhart’s Nahuatl as Written: 

maçāti, ni. Class 1: ōnimaçātic, maçātl, -ti. 223