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ixtemoa.

Headword: 
ixtemoa.
Principal English Translation: 

to desire to have children; to examine thoroughly, or to search everywhere for something (see Molina)

IPAspelling: 
iːʃteːmoɑː
Alonso de Molina: 

ixtemoa. nin. (pret. oninixtemo.) desear tener hijos.
ixtemoa. nitla. (pret. onitlaixtemo.) escudriñar bien, o buscar por todas partes alguna cosa.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 47v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

ĪXTĒMOĀ vrefl, vt to long for children of one’s own; to scrutinize something very carefully, to search for something everywhere / desear tener hijos (M), escudriñar bien o buscar por todas partes alguna cosa (M) [(3)Tp.218]. See ĪX-TLI, TĒMOĀ
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 119.