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Orthographic Variants: 
exercicio

an exercise, a religious exercise or meditation
(a loanword from Spanish/Latin)

(central Mexico, late sixteenth century; originally from Sahagún in 1574, a document that Chimalpahin copied)
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, 132–133.

to be lazy and listless (see Molina)

el

to be diligent, solicitous, or careful (see Molina)

elɑki

to be afflicted and anguished (see Molina)

to have chest pain or a stomach ache from eating a lot (see Molina)

someone with chest pain or stomach ache caused by having eaten a lot (see Molina)

chest pain or stomach ache from eating a lot (see Molina)

eːltʃikiwitɬ
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elchiquiuitl

the breasts, or the chest (see Molina); bosom (see Karttunen)

s.o.’s thorax or ribs.
# no. Un poco del hueso de una persona largo y chueco lo que encierra su corazón y se ve como una canastita. “Arturo se le dispararon cerca de su costilla un poco faltaba y lo iba hallar en su corazón”.
to poke s.o. in the ribs.
# niqu. Una persona chonsea a alguien con su dedo o con un cochillo en sus costillas. “Jorge cuando está alegre siempre lo chancea su mamá y lo asusta”.
to poke s.o. in the ribs with a finger or a knife.
# niqu. Una persona chonsea a alguien en su costilla con algo. “aquel niño ajeno chonsó mi hijo con un cochillo porque lo odia y no lo quiere ver”.
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elchiquipetlaua

to reveal someone's breasts (see Molina)

(next to s.o.’s) ribs.
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elchiquiuhpetlaua

to unbutton, revealing the breasts (see Molina)

eːlsihsiwi
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elciciui

to sigh (see Molina and Karttunen), often paired with weeping; to be considered as good behavior (see attestations)

eːlsihsiwilistikɑ
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elciciuiliztica

sighing (see Molina)

eːlsihsiwilistɬi
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elciciuiliztli

a sigh (see Molina)

a person who sighs; a sigher (said of the person who delivers his or her mind and heart to the deity)

Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 6 -- Rhetoric and Moral Philosophy, No. 14, Part 7, 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), 8, 44.

sigh(s)

Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 240.

eːlsiːmɑ

to choke, to suffocate (see Karttunen); to have a bite of food get caught in the throat (see Molina)