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momictia.

Headword: 
momictia.
Principal English Translation: 

to commit suicide

Michel Launey, An Introduction to Classical Nahuatl, translated and adapted by Christopher MacKay (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011), 215.

Attestations from sources in English: 

Momictia is to cause oneself to die. This is somewhat different from momiquilia = He dies. (The latter is the honorific version of miqui, an intransitive verb whose applicative form takes mo- and -lia.)
Michel Launey, An Introduction to Classical Nahuatl, translated and adapted by Christopher MacKay (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011), 215.

themes: 
Death