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moyoni.

Headword: 
moyoni.
Principal English Translation: 

to swarm (see Molina and Karttunen)

IPAspelling: 
moyoːni
Alonso de Molina: 

moyoni. bullir las hormigas gusanos o cosa semejante.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 58v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

MOYŌN(I) to swarm / brullir las hormigas, gusanos o cosa semejante (M) [(2)Zp.8,174]. This appears to be related to MŌYŌ-TL ‘mosquito, flying insect,’ but there is a vowel length discrepancy in the first syllable.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 154.