ijada

Coming from Dalmatia, the usual colloquial or dialect word was "iljada" or "ijada" - note the dropping of the H.

languagehat.com: WAR IS A FORCE. 2004

A Spanish physician joked that the Aztecs valued it so much they used it to cure diseases of the kidneys, so it was dubbed piedra de la ijada , "stone of the loin," later Anglicized to "jade."

Nothing Gold Can Stay Hugh Thomson 2011

For one, they are a superb source for contemporary descriptions of the disorders of the day; within these pages we find lengthy descriptions of dolor de costado, flaqueza del estomago, dolor de ijada, morbo gálico, obstrucción del hígado, mal de madre, apostemas, and tabardillo.

Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008

Because their diet was so healthful — Cárdenas thought chile and maize tortillas helped to cleanse and "dry out" the bad humors from the body — they rarely suffered from such maladies as "rheumatism, de ijada, urine or stomach [problems]."

Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008

Farfán noted that if people would only take care of their stomachs, they would suffer less from other disorders such as gout, dolor de ijada, and urinary track problems. 57 In this medical model, in which diseases were not seen as distinct entities but, rather, as temporary concentrations of humors, fluids, or "vapors," pain and malfunction in one area of the body could easily migrate elsewhere.

Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008

According to the chronicler, the cause of the illness was self-evident: it came from "the [rain] water that fell on him, and the excessive cold he experienced from Xalapa to Quechúlac, such that, — all of this entered his side [ijada] and took root there, so that in order to cure him, many beneificios were necessary ..."

Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008

And in his account of their journey through Mexico in the 1580s, Antonio de Ciudad Real described the experience Fray Alonoso Ponce had when he fell deathly ill with dolor de ijada.

Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008

[13] In olden times, empirical healers or physicians cured with this stone the pain or sickness called colic -- _hijada_, as it was then written, now _ijada_.

The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 22 of 55 1625-29 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century. Edward Gaylord Bourne 1884