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xixili.

Headword: 
xixili.
Principal English Translation: 

to trample something; or, to tamp something down (see Karttunen)

IPAspelling: 
ʃihʃili
Alonso de Molina: 

xixili. nitla. (pret. onitlaxixil.) pisar con pison, o henchir recalcando.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 160r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

XIHXIL(I) vt to trample something, to tamp something down / pisar con pisón, o henchir recalcando (M) [(1)Cf.91v].
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 324.