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nezcoliztli.

Headword: 
nezcoliztli.
Principal English Translation: 

the act of getting warm by a fire (done by people who are cold) (see Molina)

IPAspelling: 
neskolistɬi
Alonso de Molina: 

nezcoliztli. calientamiento al fuego, delos que tienen frio.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 71v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

yn nezcoloyan catca = where people used to warm themselves (Culhuacan, 1580)
Testaments of Culhuacan (provisionally modified first edition), eds. Sarah Cline and Miguel León-Portilla, online version http://www.history.ucsb.edu/cline/testaments_of_culhuacan.pdf, 21.

themes: 
Fire, Tobacco, Incense