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xolochalhuia.

Headword: 
xolochalhuia.
Principal English Translation: 

to fold or wrinkle something with another (see Molina)

IPAspelling: 
ʃolotʃɑlwiɑː
Alonso de Molina: 

xolochalhuia. nitetla. (pret. onitetlaxolochalhui.) plegar o arrugar algo a otro.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 160v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

XOLOCHALHUIĀ applic. XOLOCHOĀ.

XOLOCHOĀ vt to wrinkle, fold something / arrugar o plegar algo (M).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 330.