copichahui.

Headword: 
copichahui.
Principal English Translation: 

to spoon or hollow out something (see Molina); to become spoon-shaped (see Sahagún)

Orthographic Variants: 
copichaui
IPAspelling: 
kopitʃɑwi
Alonso de Molina: 

copichaui. (pret. ocopichauh.) acucharrarse algo, o acanalarse.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 24v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

copichaui = it becomes spoon-shaped (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 10 -- The People, No. 14, Part 11, 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, 1961), 113.

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