to be hungry, to be anxious to eat (see Molina); or, to have a desire for something, perhaps corporal or spiritual (see Molina)
Orthographic Variants:
teociui
IPAspelling:
teohsiwi
Alonso de Molina:
teociui. ni. (pret. oniteociuh.) tener hambre, o tener gana decomer.
teociui. nic. (pret. onicteociuh.) tener deseo, o hambre de algun manjar corporal, o espiritual. Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 100r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.
Frances Karttunen:
TEOHCIHU(I) to be hungry / tener hambre o tener gana de comer (M) [(2)Cf.36r, (3)Tp.225]. M also has transitive teociui 'to crave something material or spiritual.' T has lost the internal glottal stop.
TEOHCIHUĪHUA nonact. TEOHCIHU(I).
TEOHCIHUĪTIĀ caus. TEOHCIHU(I). Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 227.