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ixtotomahua.

Headword: 
ixtotomahua.
Principal English Translation: 

to go about rambling from one place to another (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
ixtotomaua
IPAspelling: 
iːʃtotomɑːwɑ
Alonso de Molina: 

ixtotomaua. n. (pret. onixtotomauac.) andar atochado o desuariado de vna parte a otra.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 48v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

iece tehoatl njpa tixtotomaoaltilo = But thereabouts thou art made a fool (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 6 -- Rhetoric and Moral Philosophy, No. 14, Part 7, 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), 122.