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cocoya.

Headword: 
cocoya.
Principal English Translation: 

to be sick (see Molina)

IPAspelling: 
kokoyɑ
Alonso de Molina: 

cocoya. ni. (pret. onicocox.) estar enfermo.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 23v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

COCOY(A) pret: COCOX to be sick / estar enfermo (M) See COCOĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 40.

Attestations from sources in English: 

cocoia = it sickens (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 10 -- The People, No. 14, Part 11, 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, 1961), 97.

IDIEZ morfema: 
cocoya.
IDIEZ traduc. inglés: 
root of COCOXQUĒTL and COCOLIĀ. to be gravely ill.
IDIEZ def. náhuatl: 
COCOXQUĒTL huan COCOLIĀ iyollo. Macehualli, tecuani zo tlapiyalli tlahuel mococoa.
IDIEZ morfología: 
cocotl, ya1.
IDIEZ gramática: 
tlach2.