chinoa. nitla. (pret. onitlachino.) quemar los campos. Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 21r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.
Frances Karttunen:
CHINOĀ vt to burn off land / quemar los campos (M) [(4)Tp.149,231]. All attestations are of the prefixed stem (I)HCHINOĀ . In fact, since as an intransitive verb this must always take an object prefix, and since in such cases the (I)H element is only detectable in sources that indicate glottal stop, it is possible that (I)HCHINOĀ also underlies M’s entry chinoa. See (I)HCHINOĀ. CHINŌLŌ nonact. CHINOĀ CHINOLTIĀ caus. CHINOĀ Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 52.