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to afflict or torment someone; to cause someone pain (see Molina)

Sagittarius, a zodiac sign
(a loanword from Spanish/Latin)

(central Mexico, early seventeenth century)
Codex Chimalpahin: Society and Politics in Mexico Tenochtitlan, Tlatelolco, Culhuacan, and Other Nahuatl Altepetl in Central Mexico; The Nahuatl and Spanish Annals and Accounts Collected and Recorded by don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Susan Schroeder (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), vol. 2, 128–129.

literally, entire war, but a personal name (see attestations)

an enslaved person (for examples of the plural, see tlatlacotin) James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 236.

1) wretched: a suffix meaning miserable or wretched; a particle that, when placed after a noun, increases its significance, usually in malam partem [in a perjorative sense] like azo in Spanish
Horacio Carochi, S.J., Grammar of the Mexican language with an explanation of its adverbs (1645), translated and edited with commentary by James Lockhart, UCLA Latin American Studies Volume 89 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, UCLA Latin American Center Publications, 2001), 43.

2) large: The use of -pol in nehuapol, according to Louise Burkhart, literally means "Big Me," but in usage means wretched me. It may also have the sense of large in citlalpol, which is an especially bright star. More examples are: cuauhticapol, cuauhchocholpol, cuauhtitimpol, cuitlatolompol, hueipol, talapol, all found in this digital collection to mean big, large, tall, etc. (SW)

to be or become the foundation, to have a beginning or a start at being/existing

the Scarlet Macaw (see Hunn, attestations); the macaw (see Molina)

See an exccellent photo of the scarlet macaw hosted by Mexicolore:
https://www.mexicolore.co.uk/images-6/613_06_2.jpg

something thin, such as a delicate fabric (see Molina)

to obey (see Karttunen); to be obedient (see Sahagún)

a defective preterit agentive serving as a base for "quēn" in "quēnamî"

to turn the face away (literal meaning); to turn right side out (speaking of clothing); to deceive; to err on the road (see Molina)

1) to be idle, without profit; in vain, futile (see Karttunen); 2) to have lived (see attestations in English)

thus it shall be (see attestations)

See also ma ihui.

how? what? in what way?; in what manner?; how, what

only, alone, by oneself; only that one (see Molina)

founders of the altepetl (a plural agentive noun); the verb mana, to found or establish is part of the construction

cold water (see Molina); icy water (see Sahagún)

or; also, part of an optative expression