to end up in a state of misery and poverty (see Molina)
Alonso de Molina:
ye ninotolinia. (pret. ye oninotolini.) lo mismo es que ye nicnoti. Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 35v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.