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pozonia.

Headword: 
pozonia.
Principal English Translation: 

to cook something in a pot, or to make something boil, or to bring up froth or foam (see Molina)

IPAspelling: 
posoːniɑː
Alonso de Molina: 

pozonia. nitla. (pret. onitlapozoni.) cozer algo en olla, o caldera, o hazer heruir alguna cosa, o hazer espuma.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 83r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

POZŌNIĀ vt to boil something / lo hierve (T) [(6)Tp.198,(3)Xp.73]. See POZŌN(I).

POZŌNILIĀ applic. POZŌNIĀ.

POZŌNĪLŌ nonact. POZŌNIĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 205.

themes: 
Food, Eating, Cooking
See also: 
tlecuilitl.
tlacualchihua.
ixca.
iucci.
huicxitia.