to act of one's free will (see Molina and Karttunen)
Orthographic Variants:
nomauia
IPAspelling:
nohmɑhwiɑː
Alonso de Molina:
nomauia. nino. (pret. oninonomaui.) hazer algo desu proprio aluedrio y voluntad. Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 73r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.
Frances Karttunen:
NOHMAHHUIĀ vrefl to act of one's free will / hacer algo de su propio albedrío y voluntad (M) [(2)Bf.10r,11r,(2)Cf.60v]. See NOHMAH, -HUIĀ.
NOHMAHHUILIĀ applic. NOHMAHHUIĀ. Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 173.