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totomolihui.

Headword: 
totomolihui.
Principal English Translation: 

for buds to swell, for a tree to wish to sprout (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
totomoliui
IPAspelling: 
totomoliwi
Alonso de Molina: 

totomoliui. (pret. ototomoliuh.) brotar e hincharse las yemas assi los arboles.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 150v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

abotonar o querer brotar los arboles. totomoliui.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1555, part 1, Spanish to Nahuatl, f. 1v.