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tezcahuia.

Headword: 
tezcahuia.
Principal English Translation: 

to look at oneself in the mirror (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
tezcauia
IPAspelling: 
teskɑwiɑ
Alonso de Molina: 

tezcauia. nino. (pret. oninotezcaui.) mirarse en espejo.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 112v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

Ihuan ma muchipa tictemo, ma muchipa tiquelehui ticnec in cualli nexintli; ma muchipa timopepetla; timotezcahui; ma muchipa timoyecquetz = No todo el tiempo busques, no siempre desees ni quieras el adorno; no te peines continuamente; no te veas en el espejo sin cesar; no te adornes continuamente (centro de México, s. XVI)
Josefina García Quintana, "Exhortación de un padre a su hijo; texto recogido por Andrés de Olmos," Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl 11 (1974), 162–163.