to become bloody, to bleed; or, to make something bleed (see Molina)
Orthographic Variants:
ezuia
IPAspelling:
eswiɑː
Alonso de Molina:
ezuia. nitla. (pret. onitla ezui.) ensangrentar algo.
ezuia. nin. (pret. oninezui.) ensangrentarse. Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 29v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.
Frances Karttunen:
EZHUIĀ vrefl,vt to bloody oneself; to bloody someone, something / ensangrentarse (M), ensangrentar algo (M) [(2)Cf.60v]. See EZ-TLI, -HUIĀ. Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 79.