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chichiloa.

Headword: 
chichiloa.
Principal English Translation: 

to make something red (see Molina and Karttunen)

IPAspelling: 
tʃiːtʃiːloɑː
Alonso de Molina: 

chichiloa. nitla. (pret. onitlachichilo.) hazer algo bermejo o colorado.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 19v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

CHĪCHĪLOĀ to make something red / hacer algo bermojo o colorado (M) See CHĪCHĪLIHU(I).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 48.

Attestations from sources in English: 

motenchichillo = her lips are painted red
Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan, et al. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 107.

tlachichiloa = it makes things chili-red (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 10 -- The People, No. 14, Part 11, 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), 132.

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