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zoquihuia.

Headword: 
zoquihuia.
Principal English Translation: 

to get everything muddy (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
zoquiuia
IPAspelling: 
sokiwiɑː
Alonso de Molina: 

zoquiuia. nitla. (pret. onitlazoquiui.) enlodar algo.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 25r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

ZOQUIHUIĀ vrefl, vt to get soiled with mud; to soil something with mud / se enloda (Z), enlodar algo (M) [(2)Zp.52,172]. See ZOQUI-TL, -HUIĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 349.