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mozomani.

Headword: 
mozomani.
Principal English Translation: 

an angry person, envious of another

IPAspelling: 
mosoːmɑni
Alonso de Molina: 

mozomani. enojado de embidia que contra otro tiene.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 58r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

huel mo-Zomâquí ocatca, caaycopacticat ca cemicac Yaoyotl= huel mozomahqui o:catca, ca aic o:pacticatca cemihcac ya:o:yo:tl = he was a very bellicose man, who was only happy always at war
Anónimo mexicano, ed. Richley H. Crapo and Bonnie Glass-Coffin (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2005), 56–57.

Mozoma was a given name in sixteenth-century Morelos.
The Book of Tributes: Early Sixteenth-Century Nahuatl Censuses from Morelos, ed. and transl. S. L. Cline, (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center Publications, 1993), 264.

themes: 
Emotions