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tzoyoni.

Headword: 
tzoyoni.
IPAspelling: 
tsoyoːni
Alonso de Molina: 

tzoyoni. (pret. otzoyon.) freirse algo.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 153r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

TZOYŌN(I) to fry, for water to boil away / freírse (M), se consume (el agua) por tanto hervir (T), se fríe (T).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 320.