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tzipicuazaloa.

Headword: 
tzipicuazaloa.
Principal English Translation: 

the mother who has become pregnant again starves (inadvertently) her existing infant of nutrients (as her mother's milk presumably changes) (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
tzipiquazaloa
Alonso de Molina: 

tzipiquazaloa. ni. (pret. onitzipiquazalo.) desmedrar y enflaquecer la madre ala criatura que cria, por se auer tornado a empreñar.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 152v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

themes: 
Family, Kinship, Descent
Sexuality, Fertility, Reproduction