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poyec.

Headword: 
poyec.
IPAspelling: 
poyek
Alonso de Molina: 

poyec. cosa que tiene sal, asi como el manjar, o el agua.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 83r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

POYEC something salted / cosa que tiene sal, así como el manjar o el agua (M)[(2)Tp.171,176,(2)Zp.112,184]. T has I for E.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 204.