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mixihui.

Headword: 
mixihui.
Principal English Translation: 

to give birth (see Molina and Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
mixiui
IPAspelling: 
miːʃiwi
Alonso de Molina: 

mixiui. ni. (pret. onimixiuh.) parir la mujer.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 57r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

MĪXIHU(I) to give birth / partir la mujer (M), le da a luz, pare su hijo (T) [(1)Cf.99V, (3)Tp. 190, (3)Xp.70]. In T and X this is a transitive verb, but in M and C it ia intransitive. See ĪX-TLI.

MĪXIHUILIĀ applic. . MĪXIHU(I)

MĪXIHUĪHUA nonact. MĪXIHU(I)
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 149.

Attestations from sources in English: 

See an image that represents mixihui in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).

themes: 
Family, Kinship, Descent