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teitec ya.

Headword: 
teitec ya.
Principal English Translation: 

something that is felt a lot, or hurts, and reaches the entrails and can relate to both the good and the difficult birth (?) (see Molina)

Alonso de Molina: 

teitec ya. (pret. teitecoya.) cosa que se siente mucho y llega alas entrañas y toma se in bonam y malam partem.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 95r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.