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xocatetlalia.

Headword: 
xocatetlalia.
Principal English Translation: 

to swell, for a raised swelling to form (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
xocatetlāliā
IPAspelling: 
ʃokɑtetɬɑːliɑː
Frances Karttunen: 

XOCATETLĀLIĀ vrefl to swell, for a raised swelling to form / se hincha (en forma de bola - como el piquete de abeja) (T) [(1)Tp.163]. Despite the different vowel in the second syllable, this may be related to XOCOTETIC ‘something with a round shape.’ See TLĀLIĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 328.