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tetzilihui.

Headword: 
tetzilihui.
Principal English Translation: 

to have cold sweats and fever (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
tetziliui
IPAspelling: 
tetsiːliwi
Alonso de Molina: 

tetziliui. ni. (pret. onitetziliuh.) tener calafrios con calenturas
.Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 111r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

Inic quimpatizque iniquac tetetzilquiza, ahnozo atonahuia. = Para que (las pastillas) les curarán cuando tienen escalofríos o tienen fiebres (centro de México, s. XVIII)
Neville Stiles, Jeff Burnham, James Nauman, "Los concejos médicos del Dr. artolache sobre las pastillas de fierro: Un documento colonial en el náhuatl del siglo XVIII," Estudios de Cultural Náhuatl 19 (1989), 269–287, ver página 281.

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