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.