Classical Nahuatl

Verb

ezhuiā

1. (transitive) To bloody; make bloody; cover in blood.
   • 1645: Horacio Carochi, Arte de la lengua mexicana con la declaración de los adverbios della, f. 60v.

     Eztli, sangre. nitlaezhuia, ensangrentar algo. ninezhuia, me ensangrento à mi.

     (Eztli, blood; nitlaezhuia, to stain something with blood. Ninezhuia, I cover myself with blood.)

References

• Carochi, Horacio (2001) Grammar of the Mexican Language, with an Explanation of its Adverbs (1645), translated and edited with commentary by James Lockhart, Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, pages 232–233
• Karttunen, Frances (1983) An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl, Austin: University of Texas Press, page 79