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noquia.

Headword: 
noquia.
Principal English Translation: 

to spill something; or, to have diarrhea (see Molina, Karttunen, and Lockhart)

IPAspelling: 
noːkiɑː
Alonso de Molina: 

noquia. nic. (pret. onicnoqui.) tener enfermedad de camaras.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 73v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

noquia. nitla. (pret. onitlanoqui.) verter o derramar alguna cosa liquida.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 73v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

NŌQUIĀ vt to upset, spill something / lo trastorna, lo derrama (T) [(3)Tp.194(5)Zp.43,127,130,191,199]. NŌQUILIĀ applic. NŌQUIĀ. NŌQUĪLŌ nonact. NŌQUIĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 174.

Lockhart’s Nahuatl as Written: 

to spill; nic. Class 3: ōnicnōquih. 227
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), 227.

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