to choke, suffocate (see Karttunen)
ĒLCĪMIĀ vrefl to choke, suffocate / se ahoga (Z) [(2)Zp.7,169,(3)Xp.56]. This is a variant of ĒLCĪM(A). X has TZ for C. Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 77.