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mayanmiqui.

Headword: 
mayanmiqui.
Principal English Translation: 

to be very hungry, to be perishing of hunger (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
mayānmiqui
IPAspelling: 
mɑyɑːnmiki
Frances Karttunen: 

MAYĀNMIQU(I) pret: -MIC to be very hungry, to be perishing of hunger / se muere de hambre (Z) [(2)Zp. 86, 166]. This attested with out assimilation of the NM sequence to MM. See MAYĀN(A), MIQU(I).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 141.