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mahuizoa.

Headword: 
mahuizoa.
Principal English Translation: 

to marvel at something, to see, behold, admire, be amazed by; to amaze, make reverent; to receive honor

Orthographic Variants: 
mahuiçoa, mauiçoa, mavizoa, maviçoa, mauizoa
IPAspelling: 
mɑwisoɑː
Alonso de Molina: 

mauizoa. ni. pret. onimauizoac. afamarse, o recebir honra.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 54r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

mauizoa. nitla. pret. onitlamauizo
admirarse
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 54r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

MAHUIZOĀ vt to marvel at something, to observe something / admirarse (M), estar sorprendido (S), lo divierte (T) lo observa (Z) This is abundantly attested across sources. It contrasts with intransitive MAHUIZOHUA ‘to receive honor’ not only in preterit formation but also in that in C the intransitive is sometimes represented with a geminate ZZ. This may be the basic form, with the single Z the result of degemination. S combines the transitive and intransitive verbs in a single entry, while M separates them in contiguous entries. See MAHUIZ-TLI. MAHUIZALHUIĀ applic. MAHUIZOĀ MAHUIZŌLŌ nonact. MAHUIZOĀ
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 132.

Lockhart’s Nahuatl as Written: 

nic, more frequently nitla. to marvel at, to see, behold. Class 3: ōnicmahuiçoh. 223
James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 223.

Attestations from sources in English: 

çaço tlein quittaz, quimaviçoz = whatever he was to see and behold
(central Mexico, sixteenth century)
James Lockhart, We People Here: Nahuatl Accounts of the Conquest of Mexico, Repertorium Columbianum v. 1 (Los Angeles: UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 1993), 88.

themes: 
Religion (Christian)