to rise, to lift oneself up; or, to bring to a boil, until the pot bubbles (see Molina and Karttunen)
Orthographic Variants:
touitzoa
IPAspelling:
towitsoɑ
Alonso de Molina:
touitzoa. nino. (pret. oninotouitzo.) lo mesmo es que tonuitzoa. Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 151r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.
Frances Karttunen:
The second element is a shortened form of TLAPOLŌLTILIZ–TLI.
M has the synonymous reflexive verbs tohuitzoa and tonhuitzoa 'to rise, to lift oneself up'.