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tlaxocolia.

Headword: 
tlaxocolia.
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑʃokoliɑː
Alonso de Molina: 

tlaxocolia. (pret. otlaxocoli.) el que azeda o haze agra alguna cosa.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 146v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

TLAXOCOLIĀ to make things go sour, curdle, ferment / el que aceda o hace agria alguna cosa (M) lo hace acedo (T) [(1)Tp.238]. See XOCOYA.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 303.