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acochiztli.

Headword: 
acochiztli.
Principal English Translation: 

sleeplessness

(central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 2 -- The Ceremonies, no. 14, Part III, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1951), 88.

IPAspelling: 
ɑhkotʃistɬi
Alonso de Molina: 

Acochiztli nicnochiualtia. velar la noche. Preterito. acochiztli onicnochiualti.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua mexicana y castellana, 1571, (www.idiez.org.mx), f. 2v.

Attestations from sources in English: 

aquenman ochi, acochiztli qujmochi8oaltia, iuh vetzi in ioalli = At no time did they rest; they passed the night sleepless. Thus they passed the night in vigil.
(central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 2 -- The Ceremonies, no. 14, Part III, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1951), 88.

acochiztli nicnochiualtia = to stay up late (Molina)