nemocihuiliztli.

Headword:

nemocihuiliztli.

Principal English Translation:

anguish, disturbance, embarrassment; or, a request and haste in any business (i.e. situation?), or agony (see Molina); fear (see attestations)

Orthographic Variants:

nemociuiliztli

IPAspelling:

nemosiwilistɬi

Alonso de Molina:

nemociuiliztli. congoxa, turbacion, o solicitud y priesa de negocios, o agonia.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 67v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in Spanish:

yn tonemociuill = nuestro miedo [formerly translated nuestra pena es muy grande] (Quauhtinchan, s. XVI)
Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca, eds. Paul Kirchhoff, Lina Odena Güemes, y Luis Reyes García (México: CISINAH, INAH-SEP, 1976), 144.

themes:

Emotions