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tzoyonia.

Headword: 
tzoyonia.
Principal English Translation: 

to fry something

IPAspelling: 
tsoyoːniɑː
Alonso de Molina: 

tzoyonia. nitla. (pret. onitlatzoyoni.) freir algo.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 153r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

TZOYŌNIĀ vt to fry something / lo frie (T,Z) [(3)Tp.215, (2)Zp.61,199]. See TZOYŌN(I).

TZOYŌNILIĀ applic. TZOYŌNIĀ.

TZOYŌNĪLŌ nonact. TZOYŌNIĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 320.

themes: 
Fire, Tobacco, Incense