MĪN(I) vt to prick, pierce something / le quema (el sol), le pica (abeja, etc.) (T) This is abundantly attested in T. The preterit is MĪN, not MĪNIC, but T’s nonactive form consistently has the reflex of a long vowel in the second syllable. This is a variant of MĪN(A). See MĪ-TL. Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 148.