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tzinyauh.

Headword: 
tzinyauh.
Principal English Translation: 

for an animal to get a pain in its flank

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), 240.

IPAspelling: 
tsinjɑːw
Alonso de Molina: 

tzinyauh. no. (pret. onotzinya.) tener dolor de hijada.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 152r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Lockhart’s Nahuatl as Written: 

pret. ōtzīnyah. functions differently in a text in Lesson 19 here than in Molina. tzīntli, yauh.
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), 240.

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