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tozoa.

Headword: 
tozoa.
Principal English Translation: 

to stay awake, to keep vigil (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tōzoā
IPAspelling: 
toːsoɑː
Frances Karttunen: 

TŌZOĀ to stay awake, to keep vigil / velar (K) [(2)Bf.Iv,2r,(1)Cf.97r]. M has tocoani ‘one who keeps vigil’.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 249.

Attestations from sources in English: 

See an image that represents tozoa in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).