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tzoniztalli.

Headword: 
tzoniztalli.
Principal English Translation: 

white or gray hair (on the head), or, a person who is white haired (see Molina)

Alonso de Molina: 

tzoniztalli. canas dela cabeza, o el que tiene canas enla cabeza.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 153v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.