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tzitzicazhuia.

Headword: 
tzitzicazhuia.
Principal English Translation: 

to sting someone with stinging nettles (see Molina); to punish someone by stinging him with nettles (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tzitzicazuia
IPAspelling: 
tsiːtsikɑːswiɑː
Alonso de Molina: 

tzitzicazuia. nite. (pret. onitetzitzicazui.) hortigar a otro con hortigas.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 152v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

TZĪTZICĀZHUIĀ vt to punish someone by stinging him with nettles / ortigar a otro con ortigas (M) [(1)Bf.10r]. See TZĪTZICĀZ-TLI, -HUIĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 315.

Attestations from sources in English: 

See an image that represents tzitzicazhuia in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).

themes: 
Crime, Punishment