Search Issues: Update 2026-09-16 - Repairs to some of our search pages are ongoing. Thank you for your continued patience!

Meanwhile, elements of the Advanced Search are working and the Alphabetical Listings are working, too.

mahuiztemoa.

Headword: 
mahuiztemoa.
Principal English Translation: 

to look for something (that is of great emotional value, very esteemed) very diligently (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
mauiztemoa
IPAspelling: 
mɑːwistemoɑ
Alonso de Molina: 

mauiztemoa. nitla. (pret. onitlamauiztemo.) buscar algo con mucha diligencia, y como a cosa de mucha estima.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 54v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.