to be afflicted with pustules or buboes (see Molina), possibly related to venereal disease
Orthographic Variants:
nanauati
Alonso de Molina:
nanauati. buboso.
nanauati. ni. (pret. oninanauatic.) tener bubas. Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 063r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.