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poyomiqui.

Headword: 
poyomiqui.
Principal English Translation: 

to die through stealth or treachery

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), 230.

IPAspelling: 
poyoːmiki
Frances Karttunen: 

POYŌMIQU(I) pret: -MIC to die by treachery or evil design of others / morir por traición (K)[(1)Bf.12v). This is implied by POYŌMICQUI. See POYŌ-TL, MIQU(I).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 204.

Lockhart’s Nahuatl as Written: 

ni. Class 2: ōnipoyōmic. contains miqui. 230

themes: 
Death