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mellelquixtia.

Headword: 
mellelquixtia.
Principal English Translation: 

to take recreation and amuse oneself (see Molina)

Alonso de Molina: 

mellelquixtiqui. persona que se recrea y que se anda espaciando.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 55v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

in quenjn mellelqujxtiaia, tlatoanj = how the ruler was amused (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 8 -- Kings and Lords, no. 14, Part IX, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1951), 58.