xoxohuic. | Nahuatl Dictionary

xoxohuic.

Headword:

xoxohuic.

Principal English Translation:

something green, something unripe (see Karttunen); also, something blue

Orthographic Variants:

xoxōhuic

IPAspelling:

ʃoʃoːwik

Frances Karttunen:

XOXŌHUIC something green, unripe / crudo, verde (no maduro) (T,Z) [(1)Tp.247, (2)Zp.128,230, (5)Xp.104]. X has the variant form XOXŌUHQUI. See XOXŌHUIYA, XOXOCTIC.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 331.

Attestations from sources in English:

in atl xoxovic xicaltica = the water in a blue gourd vessel (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 3 -- The Origin of the Gods, Part IV, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1978), 7.