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cocolhuia.

Headword: 
cocolhuia.
Principal English Translation: 

to injure or mistreat another person

IPAspelling: 
kokoːlwiɑː
Alonso de Molina: 

cocolhuia. nicte. (pret. onictecocolhui.) entortar algo a otro, o lastimarle. o maltratarle algo.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 23v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

COCŌLHUIĀ vrefl,vt to hurt, to hurt someone / encontrar algo a otro, o lasti- /K038/ marle, o maltratarle algo (M) [(2)Cf.65v,(3)Tp.179,219,228]. The T attestations are specifically given as derivations from COCOĀ and neither they nor the C attestations have a long vowel in the second syllable. See COCŌL-LI, -HUIĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 39.