to make candies
(partly a loanword from Spanish, confites, candies)
Orthographic Variants:
confites chiua
Alonso de Molina:
confites chiua. ni. (pret. oniconfites chiuh.) hazer confites. Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 24v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.