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nemocihuiliztli.

Headword: 
nemocihuiliztli.
Principal English Translation: 

anguish, disturbance, embarrassment; or, a request and haste in any business (i.e. situation?), or agony (see Molina); fear (see attestations)

Orthographic Variants: 
nemociuiliztli
IPAspelling: 
nemosiwilistɬi
Alonso de Molina: 

nemociuiliztli. congoxa, turbacion, o solicitud y priesa de negocios, o agonia.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 67v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

yn tonemociuill = nuestro miedo [formerly translated nuestra pena es muy grande] (Quauhtinchan, s. XVI)
Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca, eds. Paul Kirchhoff, Lina Odena Güemes, y Luis Reyes García (México: CISINAH, INAH-SEP, 1976), 144.

themes: 
Emotions